Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

Anxiety

  • Langoliers

      Slow movement as the car pulls into the layby. A few cigarettes, and one or two painkillers to ease the horrors of being human as I’m engulfed by smoke. This flesh. This freak show of what they tell me is supposed to resemble humanity, how it gets me so low at times. The other… Read more

  • Dreamcatcher

      Segments of satsumas in your hand and bodies blinking in and out of existence in some club in some town on the outskirts of nowhere. There’s flesh that stinks and sticks at the back of your throat, and there’s a burning sensation in your stomach that feels orange and red with every shot of… Read more

  • YouTube: Sex, Love & Writing Stuff

        Made another video where this time I discuss the imagery used in two of my latest pieces, as well as my work in general. There’s also talk about sex and love, and how I approach the two issues within my writing. These videos are enjoyable to make. They’re kinda therapeutic and help me… Read more

  • Two Worlds

      October sun on your face and rust-coloured paint on your fingernails as the city swallows itself along with all those that were once so happy to call it their home. A kiss on the cheek and one or two pinky fingers on the back of your skull as you eat your sandwich thinking about… Read more

  • YouTube: More Flesh

        This is the follow-up video to my introductory piece from yesterday. It sheds some more light on my writing background and motivations and is a little more focused. Well, sort of. I’ll probably do another one when I get the proof copy for the second volume of Damned Lovers in a few weeks time.… Read more

  • Troubles

      She lies there crying in the dark. She twists and turns and one minute she’s with me and the next she’s far away. The window’s open. It’s cold, but the heating’s on. On her upper lip, there are beads of sweat I try wiping away with my thumb, but she goes and turns her… Read more

  • YouTube: In the Flesh

      I made a video for YouTube. It’s an in the flesh introduction if you will. Thought it would be productive to make a few to give some insight into my writing process, and to babble about books and music and other such creative inspirations. There’s another one I’ll put up tomorrow which goes into a bit… Read more

  • Your Theme

      Days and weeks and years and months and burning wheels and those moments when it all gets too much and there’s nothing to be done but drown my sorrows but then as one word follows the next I’m back once again and in control of all things. Yeah I’m a bum and yeah I’m… Read more

  • Nevada Native

      In Las Vegas, some white guy old enough to know better shot the hell out of a crowd of music goers from his 32nd-floor hotel room. Over 500 injured, and 60 dead. They say he’s a lone wolf, but personally, I don’t like the term. Makes him sound cool, don’t you think? And leave… Read more

  • Hip Priest

      In a field of corn, she divides and comes back together again. In the time it takes to figure out the future, the past has already caught up with the present, much to my giddy delight. Crawling around on all fours as the sun lurks above, when she kisses the ground to be at… Read more