Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: In November of 2018, the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective announced its first Short Story Contest centered around the theme ‘Things Would Never Be The Same.’  We received 129 submissions from around the globe with incredibly diverse interpretations of the theme. We took these submissions very seriously, going through not… Read more

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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Winter in radio frequencies his mad orchestra the pale state of heaven Sluggish days / cemeteries   for pencils – broken   Are you upset? Walk often Until communication returns sleep wake attack escape social shadowplay Feed yourself: the kitchen knife gleam of the underworld Windows are reflection /… Read more

Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Show me someone who doesn’t want to make their parents proud and I’ll show you a liar. Or, worse, I’ll show you a weakling who shies from hardship. Or, even worse, a heartless, ungrateful bastard. For it is a truth secretly whispered that, when parents bring a baby into… Read more

Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: I salute the trees.  I am not magnificent but I can see everything grow.  I hear the grass chattering and laughing.  I stare at the oaks as they stretch like old hungover drunks after a binge. Kicking my way through an old memory, I sit down on a bench… Read more