Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

Anxiety

  • This Voice

      Each written piece is a love letter I’m sending straight to your heart. Each syllable an attempt to prove to you that the man I am is the poet you said I could never be. I don’t care much for the opinions and views of those around me. They can sink in a river… Read more

  • Neptune’s Kiss

      There’s a certain poetry about your body it must be said. There’s a certain charm and sex that speaks in hushed tones that keep me from growing old whenever I feel my age. Of course, I can’t deny the ageing process. The grey hairs are here already and these bones of mine ache when… Read more

  • The sound of wind chimes comes to me through the window and for some reason I’m not sure of, I feel so desperately sad. Closing my eyes, I see her dancing in a void, and the delicate beauty of it is reminiscent of the sensation of a moth’s wings tickling the insides of my clasped… Read more

  • I Rhyme with You

      As I hang on your arm in a crowded room, we act like a Punch and Judy show. There’s blood in my mouth and lipstick on my collar, and it’s all because of you. We argue. We make-up and fuck while dreaming of Old Detroit and the fires that burn on its outskirts. In… Read more

  • Prometheus

        As the sun comes in through the window, I work on a few sentences to conjure something of merit. As I go ahead and open the door to the other side, I pass her a handful of literary lube as she tries so hard to tickle herself into action. If it doesn’t work, she’ll… Read more

  • Riddle me this

    Originally posted on Inked Thoughts and Midnight Monologues: ? I pity the classicists of the 18th century. Blind devotions. Lust for sanity. Pestilence and empty wit. I recently read about how they were deceived by the dulling film of familiarity which they never tried to see through. The romanticists knew better. They scraped off this film… Read more

  • Us and me

    Under his plaid comforter we were children again. He had one of those wafer candies. Those ones that you snap in half and they were supposed to spark. We looked on with anticipation as he placed the small white wafer between his two hands. When it snapped, I didn’t see a spark. He claimed to […]… Read more

  • The Gateway

      On a night like any other, here I am with my head full of thoughts that just don’t know when to quit. In a time that has never tasted a moment of genuine bliss, here I am yet again pouring out as much as I can in the hope of salvation when the end… Read more

  • A Big Nothing

    Big Nothing. They say I’m not romantic, that I’m distant and distracted, but my love shows itself in many different forms. They tell me that I’m cold, that I don’t know how to connect. My defense is that it’s them- it’s them that can’t connect to me because they’re not open to the ebb and […]… Read more

  • Vagabonds

      Kissing through wet hair, the night makes fools of us all as we declare our love not even knowing the meaning of the word. But we will. It happens to us all. We grow up. We fuck up. Some learn, while most just repeat and rinse until they drop after a lifetime of convincing themselves… Read more