Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

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  • Faith Don’t Lie- Christine Ray & S.K. Nicholas

    Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Before you, the days blended one into another, each one as empty as the day before. Hell on earth.  A month of Sundays forced to my bare bloody knees to the cold, hard stone floor by a congregation of pious sleepwalkers, of judgmental sheep. You’ve met their kind. The… Read more

  • Debris

    Originally posted on jimmi campkin: On a stale summer evening, balancing on a single rail, I light a cigarette and let my eyes water over filthy cheeks as the smoke washes over me.  I feel the dirt when I smile, and I feel the tears dancing through the grime when I cry, so I do… Read more

  • Natural Disaster

    Originally posted on Daffniblog: Crevices in the earth filled with dirt and moss and growing trees. Glow mr. moon glow. We’ll let your light in. Humans against the wall between the wall fighting to break free Glow mr. moon glow. Let your light in. ghosts whisper as they pass the sacred wall this wall of… Read more

  • Breathless-Erich Michaels

    Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: You left the room The vacuum you created Has me raking at my throat I frantically try to draw in air I look around and it seems I’m the only one struggling The only one who even noticed That you’ve gone My hand reaches out To your point of… Read more

  • Phalanx-Jimmi Campkin

    Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: I should resist, but she has the confident glow of a seasoned drunk, smelling of cheap vodka and cherry gum.  She does handstands and I watch those filthy, unwashed baseball sneakers form an arc; just missing a string to be a devastating bow.  She hovers upside down for a… Read more

  • And Why Not Both?

    Originally posted on Daffniblog: My computer is propped up against my Keurig while I watch all the Kurt Vonnegut interviews I can find and cook dinner. Rice in the rice cooker and stories of the devastation he witnessed, mingle into appreciation. Frozen stir fry with stir fry sauce and paper plates piled on the table.… Read more

  • Across The Bow – Matthew D. Eayre

    Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Far from my mind is the thought of what I may possess or what others have not A place between understanding, perhaps education is not the measure of a man’s knowledge and experience is only one of many I cannot find the sound of reverence echoing down hallowed halls;… Read more

  • PART 10

    Originally posted on samantha lucero: DETECTIVE The light left when daddy died. The world started to get a grain over it; dimmer and dimmer went her waking life, until the doctor said it was all in her mind. Migraine auras, they’d said, without the migraine part sometimes, blind in this eye one day, blind in… Read more

  • Two Ten Second Plays-David Lohrey

    Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Eminent Domain ? JOSEPHINE             (SHE’s just entered, still in hat and coat.) You’re not nearly as tall as I had imagined. CHRIS Josephine? JOSEPHINE Larry’s always liked big things: St. Bernards, Cathedrals, winter grapefruit. Do you have a big thing? CHRIS How did you get in? JOSEPHINE Take… Read more

  • Dee by the Sea – Kristiana Reed

    Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: This piece is a continuation of Kristiana’s former piece “Dee” ? Dee’s tea has been sat on the counter for fifteen minutes and I am yet to take my eyes off of it. It is surely now cold but I refuse to remake it. Five times I have called,… Read more