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Waking with a start, she realises she’s missed her stop. Not by much, but it doesn’t prevent her from cussing. The woman sat opposite gives a disapproving look. Incensed, X removes little Herbie from her dress and shoves him in the woman’s face. Look at me like that again, bitch, and he’ll chew out your Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: There are paths I walked in my youth Enough times you might still see me there A needle stuck in a groove This is my life [tick] This is my life [tick] This is my life [tick] Stop and tell me my future Stay and read my leaves Tell… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Sudden Denouement Publishing has made its mark publishing contemporary and divergent poets such as force of nature Nicole Lyons, social commentator extraordinaire David Lohrey, and stunning Bruised But Not Broken’s founder Rachel Finch. Although providing a vehicle to publish such extraordinary poets remains a priority for Sudden Denouement Publishing,… Read more
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As the bus travels through time, she tries not to, but minute by minute she finds herself dozing off. Patting the lump in her dress where Herbie sleeps, her eyes flicker like the wings of a moth, and in one sudden move, her head snaps back and the rug beneath her feet’s swept clean away Read more
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Ditching the box, she lifts the ball of fur up, holding him at eye level while tickling his tummy. Chewing on a chocolate drop he’d been meaning to save for later, he responds by kicking those little legs of his causing her to laugh so hard she has to wipe away the tears. You poor Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: You were twenty-three when we met, rebel of unrefined rhetoric. I was twenty-six, what a perfect age to be. Idealism wasn’t dead and I could still make you love me for all these ideas which had yet to erode the fantasy. You were twenty-five when I proposed, wearing plainclothes… Read more
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There’s a whoosh as she opens the door and then the jingle jangle of the bell above her head. Behind a vast number of cages, cabinets and vivariums appear all manner of expectant faces wearing feathers, fur and whiskers. Some are inquisitive while others quickly lose interest. Some climb the bars of their homes and Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Sudden Denouement Publishing is proud to announce the release of Christine E. Ray’s book Composition of a Woman. “Poet Christine Ray’s first printed collection of poetry, Composition of a Woman (Sudden Denouement Press, 2018) is a striking, fearless foray into the psyche of womanhood, both highly relatable and intensely personal for female… Read more
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Originally posted on samantha lucero: The brightening world blanched before their narrow squints, and their brows clenched with unmendable, burdened lines that worried with curiosity underneath the prying sun. Off the Mississippi came an unbidden advance of that familiar, slithery breath of humid afternoon and it dragged with it the fetor of last nights piss… Read more
Author S. K. Nicholas 