Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

Dukkha Days

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Curled on the floor wearing just my dressing gown, I’m silent and without motion. Somewhere in the heavens above there exists enough planets to match the number of atoms in my body. Black stockings. Black lipstick. Near infinite fields of view with you reclining on a deck chair while nude and whispering my middle name. Ghostbusters 2 is on. That river of slime that flows beneath New York- it flows through my veins keeping me from escaping my dark half. It denies me from being the lover I need to be. But what would I write about if things were okay? If my days were an endless sunrise, what would I have to say that had never been said before? Opening and then closing my mouth, the dust of angel wings collects in my lungs and makes me gag. The London Underground is the intestines of this country, and I am the worm in its gut. When we make love, or as you put it, when you fuck me, I always make a habit of misplacing my rubbers, because if sex is without fear, it never seems to touch me. If there’s no danger, I tend to close my eyes and feel myself falling into a lukewarm sleep. Cigarettes. Blankets of fog. Bobby Brown singing ‘On Our Own’ as I pull back my foreskin and contemplate the reason of my being.

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14 responses to “Dukkha Days”

  1. Reblogged this on Brave and Reckless and commented:
    I have a SERIOUS writer’s crush on S. K. Nicholas. He is as bad-ass and gritty a writer as I have read and his writing crawls into my head and stays there. We are probably as stylistically far apart as two writers can get but some part of me seriously wants to grow up to write my personal experience the way he does. I read this piece yesterday and cannot stop thinking about it. All I can think to say is “Damn.”

  2. “But what would I write about if things were okay? If my days were an endless sunrise, what would I have to say that had never been said before?” – the eternal question, isn’t it? I’m selfishly glad things aren’t okay 😉

    1. ‘THE’ question indeed. Ah, I guess I am as well 😉 x

  3. I think S.K. could make me look at a sunrise differently– I feel like he sees the atoms vibrating in space and experiences everything differently than mere mortals.

    1. None of us are mortals here. We’ve got the magic- we see things others would never believe x

  4. Good God man! You are above any compliments from me at this point…you just made the word foreskin sexy ffs…..I got nothin…….damn!!

    1. Haha! That’s quite something, ain’t it? I’m glad you dig- most don’t- the fools 😉

      1. Well the ‘most’ don’t even know what they are missin’ than do they?! Keep leaving me at a loss for words and I swear I will read you foreverrr! haha! I love it! ❤

      2. I shall do my very best 🙂 x

      3. Oh yes of this I have no doubt! 🙂 XO!

    1. I’m glad you approve 😉 Thank you! X

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