Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

Love

  • Myst

    Her beauty slithers through the night. She’s champagne, bubbling beneath a crescent moon. She comes around without warning. A warm soul, burning with a passion when others are just so lifeless. The spice in her veins. The truth of her footsteps. On thin ice, we dance because we mean it. We bleed because we feel… Read more

  • Heaven Scent

    Distant galaxies. The gaze of her eyes. Stars and planets, drifting in eternal darkness. Love like snow, falling upwards towards the clouds. Flashing lights. Flowers in the rain bouncing like cigarettes. A sequence of events that comes together like bombs upon a fading eastern town. Cold and wet graveyards. Dead leaves on the dirty ground.… Read more

  • Useful Is Beautiful

    be beautiful beneath a sinking sun cling to winter leaves as though each one were a secret waiting to be told let the soulful ones get beneath your armour let them break apart everything you ever tried to protect breathe in freedom surrender to all that makes you hurt the only way is through in… Read more

  • Just A Girl

    these bees, they swarm between hazy minds she’s just a girl and I’m just a boy from smile to smile a crow quickly flies  these days, they swim across loves hushed hands caressing the ones that needs undressing the most shards of shards bodies coming together spirits glistening like snow we laugh and we want,… Read more

  • Eternal Sunshine

    That moment when someone steps into your life and completely overwhelms you. You tried building a wall to keep others out but then along pops a soul who breaks through the barriers with ease. You tried to make yourself out of stone, but she came along and made you melt like a snowman beneath a… Read more

  • Are You Awake?

    All those freaks. Those fucked up losers trying to cling to things that aren’t even there. Lost and weak. Heads full of stupid ideas. Hearts full of love with nowhere to go. Always fearful. Always regretting what can’t be undone. So many mistakes. So many wrong turns. But where’s the fun in fitting in? Where’s… Read more

  • Chance

    there’s something in her style of beauty the way she carries herself so naturally to think a grown man could be so giddy to think someone so subdued could feel so pure yet you haven’t seen her the colour of her eyes the truth of her smile it’s in the way she moves in the… Read more

  • Tell Me What You See Inside

      When you tear away from what you don’t need, let me know what you see inside. Picking scabs just won’t do. Peel back all of your flesh and let me in. Let me catch a glimpse of the secrets you keep so well hidden. Eclipsed by misery no longer, give me a chance to… Read more

  • Heartbreaker

    She sings of depth perception in my viewing lens. She watches as her cigarette bounces in the rain. There’s sadness in her eyes, and untold fire in her belly, and I imagine her lying next to me, sprinkling secrets on my pillow. The shades drawn, she’s hidden in my arms. Soundless shapes, eclipsed by highways… Read more

  • Be What You Want

    Life is a series of accidents. Some good, some bad. The stuff we plan is usually boring. Things to pass the time of day. Things to occupy ourselves, to take our minds off more meaningful subjects. Y’know, love and death. The heavy shit. Everything I’ve ever planned has been half-hearted. Nothing has ever interested me… Read more