Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

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  • Somebody’s Baby

      Darkness in the taste of your lips. Wherever you are, you’ll remain hidden in a blanket of sounds that drowns out everything else. In the hearts that slip between cracks in the pavement, there’s just no way of guessing what goes on. When feelings are squeezed dry, and the air in your lungs diminishes,… Read more

  • Alcohol and Digital Ink

    This man is an inspiration to me, and his insightful, honest, and kind words are a drug to keep me going. Read more

  • Extract From a Novel

    “Chalk and stone all about, I left the main road and descended down a dirt track. Pools of still water scattered here and there, the air was silent like a grave. With no other light than the moon and stars, it was dark yet not so that I couldn’t make out the abandoned machinery that… Read more

  • Ordinary Madness

      Waking up surrounded by others, there are two spots on either side of my right nipple. Through chest hair, I see a reddened smear. Picking until it bleeds, my fingers sniff out cancer just in case. Awkward teenagers going shopping with their parents. Boys with crippling shyness and girls with braces supporting crooked teeth. Dragging feet… Read more

  • brabuhR

    Words of love, loss and emptiness from my dear friend of twenty years. Jeez, that’s a long ol’ time. Read more

  • My sister from Chicago

    Originally posted on Poetry for the void: I always wanted to be somebody but I was destined to be? a nobody Lost within the city streets the beats within my rhymes But she always brought me in my sister from Chicago She was always cool and beautiful Always knew just what to say Though I… Read more

  • Plague Lover

    Originally posted on Author S. K. Nicholas: When you taste my plague, how does it make you feel? Those thoughts that blossom in your mind when I reveal myself to you, how much is pleasure and how much is pain? With blackened eyes and hardened bones, I’m something you can never escape from. You know… Read more

  • Freedom of Failure

      The age of internal apocalypse. The scandal of undressed angels. Whatever gets you off is fine by me. Life gets behind you, but it’s okay to let it slip. Times arrow is never straight. The faces you leave will always reappear when you’re least expecting them. Drown your sorrows. Dislocate yourself from doomed devotion.… Read more

  • Too Late For Goodbyes

    Skylights as another darling cuts herself whilst pouting in the mirror. All this misery in self obsession. This damned lust for sadness when the horrors of nature should make us thankful for everything we already have. Sex can’t save you, nor can the embrace of yet another blurred face. It comes from within. Redemption and… Read more

  • Blindness

    Don’t subscribe to self help. Never listen to advice from shit eating smiles. There are no easy to follow steps. Guidance is useless, the only way is to walk through the fire. It will hurt. There’s no lie in the truth. You’ll do it alone. You were born alone, and you’ll die it too. They’ll… Read more