Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

  • four in the morning

    80’s horror movies on videotapes sifted from boxes sitting around for years doing nothing heather langenkamp with those cute lips and goofy front teeth and those vaginal eyebrows that speak to me of the wonders of desperate sweat pyjamas then no pyjamas hands around a throat then fingers in the mouth with streams of spit… Read more

  • all outlines remain

    flowers tied to a lamp post celebrating those dead kids you still hear playing long into the night dog head poking out the window licking the wind dribbling on the pizza delivery man below who’s bringing me my meat feast and garlic bread with outstretched arms and a single clenched fist which he shakes at… Read more

  • part 1

    Originally posted on samantha lucero: There’s a girl and a gust of wind and the house she left behind. A pale yellow house with mold in the corners and babies with fevers, and cigarette smoke in her nose and on the walls of her room, in her hair and in her bed sheets, and on… Read more

  • Like Superman

    I wanna run into the sun. Just strip myself of skin and become one with all things. So I run. Dropping my groceries to the ground, I launch through the streets into the woods and then the nearby fields, moving as fast as my aching legs allow. It’s not pretty nor is it graceful, and… Read more

  • Mariah Voutilainen Reviews Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective

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  • Candice Louisa Daquin Reviews Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective

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  • Daughter of a Dog- Basilike Pappa

    Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: You call me cinnamon, red apple, myrrh.   I only call you by your name.   And then you grasp tighter. You bite harder. You work faster than neurotransmitters, adrenal glands, caudate nucleus. You go deeper than all the waters in the world.   You call me sunlighter, voltage,… Read more

  • She’s Greasy

    When she’s on the brink, she tastes suicide and there goes another of her nine lives. Her toes have gone numb. Each and every one of them. Her throat’s tight, too. So tight she can barely breathe. She stinks. Sickly so sickly. Sweet so sweet like sugar on wet lips. She blinks her eyes. One… Read more

  • Just Released! Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective

    Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: The Sudden Denoument Literary Collective is thrilled to announce the release of Anthology Volume I: Writings for the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective!  This long-awaited anthology is a thoughtfully curated compendium of the best writing published online by the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective from its launch in August of 2016 through April… Read more

  • The Sounds of Interpol

    She’s got her cigarettes. She’s got her magic pills, too. Those that keep her mind from cracking like a nut when things get too much. Swallowing one with a mouthful of ginger beer, she pinches her nipples and bites her tongue imagining it’s his teeth and not her fingers working their magic. If she closes… Read more