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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: The editors of Sudden Denouement Literary Collective know that our strength is our writers. We hope that you enjoy getting to know them through our new Writer Interview Series. What name do you write under? Jimmi Campkin In what part of the world do you live? I am currently… Read more
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I’m sat in this park jotting down words into a tatty notepad. These words, they’ve got me into trouble so many times, and my obsession with wanting them to reach others has pushed me far from where I once belonged, and yet still they keep coming. They pump and stutter with all the elegance of… Read more
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Taxi trips through the heart valves of a strange city. Trains to old towns where old lovers wave to me from platforms I remember walking upon as if it were only yesterday. It doesn’t make me feel sad, but it does make me feel strange, and this strangeness never seems to explain itself no matter… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: On the edge of the room his hands tighten around my neck. That is when I have so much to say. Finding words is a fragile thing for me. And when my eyes cross everything flits away along with my energy. I am silence. Death taunting him for just… Read more
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Through the trees I find myself spinning. Spin spin spinning to a song only I can hear, and when I breathe in and skip between the roots of all those watchful trees, I can feel the cosmos in my lungs, and even though they tell me this isn’t how I should live my life, I… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Publishing: “Sudden Denouement’s Anthology exposes and breaks many of the taboos of being truly and unashamedly human, giving us permission to look at and embrace them in the moment of reading. I was allowed a glimpse into the writers’ souls; comprehending their words was an exercise in the development of… Read more
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Sips her vodka and coke and lies there fantasizing about neck kisses and hands on her thighs that inch higher and higher. Lights her smoke and sees herself swirling through the air like a falling leaf spinning faster and faster the closer she gets to the ground. She goes this way and that. She slips… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Monster is living inside of me behind my ribcage, she curls herself around my spine draws her fingers to my throat to stroke my collarbone, to deliver raspy breath to my ear repeating the words on which I always choke – my name, my wants, my needs, my apologies,… Read more
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This town was once underwater, and that’s where it should’ve remained. But against better judgement, it rose from those timeless, murky waters and now people gather around and dance upon the fossilised remains of their aquatic ancestors. They dance to popular music and believe in popular dreams. They exist without knowing, and to exist without… Read more
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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Shall I ascend to solitude, eagle high enough to spy myself? Put my metal parts to practice, and train my reason to speak in comprehensive sentences? I presently think in blinks of tainted photographs flicking— our lives a fucking flip-book filled with phony animation, as though we’ve never been… Read more
Author S. K. Nicholas 