Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

Self Portraits

  • Sepia Self Portrait

      I took a photo of myself in the mirror. Neither here nor there, I’m somewhere in between. Read more

  • Bad Machine

    Moodswings and changing faces. Big bad bones, ready to break and taste. The sandman comes calling. Comes wishing for a warm body to call his own. All that skin, and all those dreams, just begging to be consumed. Beneath flickering lights, a fan cuts through the air. Fingers peeling off useless clothes, the only thing… Read more

  • Black’d

      Human ruins/Human future  Seeds of destruction/Seeds of wonder    Read more

  • A Manic Street Preacher

        “Sickened and howled, streaked and spurned Plucked, lived, compelled and called Closed and swallowed, formed and regained Locked, cursed, glowed and discerned” Read more

  •       A vision of dead desire. Concrete face and limbs, weathered and sullen like a tree. Or a sad welsh chapel. I’m a spider killer, and hater of automobiles. Animals are my friends, as are all the make-believe lovers of the world. Bearded silence and cocooned dreams. Eyes of wine and a stupid… Read more

  • Self Portrait As Writer

        all those truths left unuttered and obscure embracing the night alone with our hearts searching out secrets like headlights in the snow we could’ve taken it all be we never had the guts to discover for sure and then we never recovered oh these hours bring me down but as long as the… Read more

  • Sulk

      Sat on a swivel chair in the garden. Sulking, and feeling unwell. I wish there was a bath out there. Read more

  • Bath

    I take photos of myself in the bath. I love having a bath. Maybe I’m trying to return to the womb or something. Or attempting to prove by taking a photo, that I somehow still exist. Read more