Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

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  • Drowning Town

    Her body, shapeless like a jewel. Suspended in space she shudders at the sight of all things unholy. Scratch your initials into the flesh of her thigh. Churchyards under starlight. A sequence of images regarding love and loss from autumn through till Spring. Place a wreath upon the lonely soil. Say some words to send Read more

  • Please

    Eyes in the fire. Virgin Mary. Breasts so tender. Fingers so itchy. Waking in the early hours to dreams of my hands being cut off. Bolting upright and sweating like a fucker. Harder and harder against the window. Rainfall so deafening. Your body should be mine. It should keep me warm on these lonely nights. Read more

  • The Way You Hush

    It’s all for you, one way or the other. These words that bubble inside drenched in your scent and so heavy to touch. Underneath your clothes, they pick like fingers at the new horizon. Neon witches drifting in and out of shadow, the time is never right, yet there’s no excuse for calling it quits. Read more

  • Exorcyst Girl

      Dead wombs and anti-matter. Brushing teeth to remove nicotine stains as my fingernails itch through nervous exhaustion- the pain in my gut is there for all to see. Exorcyst girl with bloodied hands gripping the steering wheel. Crashing cars and prophecies of the Bible, they burn in my loins with an equal measure of Read more

  • No Sense Makes Sense

    Past and present futures. The figure that waits at the foot of the bed. Grinning and insincere, all those mouthed nothings. Those half remembered deaths, exploding in childish minds. Fragments of skull, collecting dust and brittle to the touch. The hanged man, blowing from a tree in lonely fields of scorched corn. His fingers curled, Read more

  • Lactarium

    Lark rising. Sunday school. My second face twisted, a contorted mess of strange desires. On the steps of some holiday home. Blurred photos, and rivers running red. Shopping malls, flooded. Wine and cat whiskers. She caught me drinking milk from a saucer, and I wasn’t even drunk. Sloping roads, and books to be read regarding Read more

  • Dog Days

      She gazes at her reflection in a parked car. It makes no sense, and as the city swells, her insides paint themselves all down the sidewalk. Cracked pavements and lakes out of view. Bandages to cover signs of personal anguish; to keep together a soul on the verge of coming apart. Parks full of Read more

  • All of Whom are Witches

    Limbo blasted into their skulls. Limbo, gushing from their empty eyes then swallowed back into thirsty mouths. Sockets of bone, crushed and glowing, showing the wonders of nothing. The core of whores, all of whom are witches. Pyramids, introverted cigarette burns a mosaic where she was birthed. Godly babies, swinging from trees, and nightmares growing Read more

  • Six Word Story

    Pistol whipped, and divided by nine  Read more

  •   Excavate the ruins of her jaw. A muted dialogue of sores as she once sang so beautifully. Bring me fingernails. Bring me illusion. Bring me a plague to give to my lover. They won’t be missed. No, they’ll never be missed. A concave oral, from the mouth of her preacher man. They said I Read more