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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Doubled over curled up drained down to my secret nerves I grope for whatever Just need to close this window the wind must never see me cuddle dust bunnies Under the bed I’m an old diary the wind must never read me (even rats are ashamed to be… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: The editors of Sudden Denouement Literary Collective know that our strength is our writers. We hope that you enjoy getting to know them through our new Writer Interview Series. What name do you write under? Jimmi Campkin In what part of the world do you live? I am currently… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: On the edge of the room his hands tighten around my neck. That is when I have so much to say. Finding words is a fragile thing for me. And when my eyes cross everything flits away along with my energy. I am silence. Death taunting him for just… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Publishing: “Sudden Denouement’s Anthology exposes and breaks many of the taboos of being truly and unashamedly human, giving us permission to look at and embrace them in the moment of reading. I was allowed a glimpse into the writers’ souls; comprehending their words was an exercise in the development of… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Monster is living inside of me behind my ribcage, she curls herself around my spine draws her fingers to my throat to stroke my collarbone, to deliver raspy breath to my ear repeating the words on which I always choke – my name, my wants, my needs, my apologies,… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Shall I ascend to solitude, eagle high enough to spy myself? Put my metal parts to practice, and train my reason to speak in comprehensive sentences? I presently think in blinks of tainted photographs flicking— our lives a fucking flip-book filled with phony animation, as though we’ve never been… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: ? “One of the delights of this collection is the sheer diversity of voices, unconstrained, with differing syntax, forms, loss of form, deliberate omissions and styles, one moment you are reading a condensed prose-poem about the origin of life, the next a confessional bleeding rip from the heart about… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: The editors of Sudden Denouement are proud to announce the launch of a stand-alone site for Sudden Denouement Publishing. It is the place to get the latest news about upcoming books from Sudden Denouement Publishing (including our exciting Sudden Denouement Anthology!), check out currently available titles, read reviews of books published by… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Free falling through the atmosphere Eyes squinting against the rushing air Tears trailing out behind Drop Zone obscured by clouds A dozen wallet size photos Slip free and flutter out of existence You only know what you left behind Surely must be worse Than where you are headed In… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: It’s my mind that kills me with red black weapon, moments and moments of death, in my ribcage, broken and violet often I am a dissolving piece of cracks and a faded memory. I count the moles of the dark anxiety cloying sickness of stinking stress, in the hollows… Read more
Author S. K. Nicholas 