Author S. K. Nicholas

x and i: a novel

a journal for damned lovers vol 1-3

Reading

  • Monday December 17, 2007

    There’s a girl who works in a local supermarket who dances for me every time I go in. One hand lowers whilst the other rises. She has tinsel in her hair, and a rubber band around her pouting mouth. Fix me with pins. Put those hands around my bones, and eat me up. A girl Read more

  • The Lights of Our Minds

    A car alarm in the dead of night. Sleepless and wide awake. The town shimmers far below, it looks so beautiful from such great heights. The animals circle us as we dance. The birds in the sky swooping down to give us their flight. Old people with their grocery lists. With trembling bottom lips, they Read more

  • Drunken Collaboration

    Witches cackle around their cauldrons  Wind blows cold bringing nothing but desolation  Stale tea stained breath beneath my pillow  Shallow hearts disappearing on every street corner  Etched faces in trees reminiscing of what was once mine  Everything’s eventual like the dimming of a star  Blind are those who see but not who hear  Builders of Read more

  • Glimpse

    A child discovers snow for the very first time His hands shiver as the flakes fall upon his pale face He dreams of a lover within a book Kissing brings perfection It holds the key to a timeless time Forever out of reach in the depths of pure imagination Read more