Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

  •             The people I went to school with are settled down now. Married, kids of their own, the lot. But here I am, single, poor, and clinging to fanciful dreams of being a writer. Age doesn’t mean a thing to me; I couldn’t care less that I’m nearly thirty. The… Read more

  • Nights

    the lights outside flicker lonely souls circling sidewalks eyes down to the dirty, wasteful ground petrified. desolute. alone. a labyrinth surrounding suffocating, eternally the sky does not exist for them too high! too high! Read more

  •   The days grow warm. The sky stays brighter for longer. My feelings are muddled, scattered like marbles on thin ice. But the ice would just melt in this weather, and my feelings would end up sinking to the bottom of a cold lake. Love, happiness. Feelings that run deep, that are difficult to make… Read more

  • Eye

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  • Life

    The world can be an ugly place. Sometimes, it might as well be hell. Forget all the bullshit though, all the damned stuff that we seem to cling to with a passion, and let us embrace the ones we love. Life’s too short to do anything else. We’re a long time dead for sure. Read more

  • Woman

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  • Lovers Poem

      her eyes pierce me they shatter my armour completely her gaze quickens my beating heart hands upon her body caressing, wanting hands pushing, pulling until we dance our dance she reduces me to a giddy fool pulling stars from the sky we explode merging, dissolving into something wonderous lovers, hiding from the world beneath… Read more

  • Starless

    my soul is a thousand years old landfill, buried junk i’m the loneliest man in a city that never dreams isolated, like the moon older, colder than i dare admit born from an ancient collision a secret, lost in time haunted by the ghosts of all those that have gone before my blood bubbles with… Read more

  •   Don’t be upset. There’s no need to feel lonely. Lay down upon your bed, and breathe in the warm air that longs to comfort you. Listen to the birds, to the traffic as it endlessly rolls past outside. Let the tears come, let all the pain in the world empty itself from your tired… Read more