We have had a lot of inquiries about the Sudden Denouement Short Story Contest. We received 129 submissions to the contest from all over the globe and the editors recently completed their first round of judging, choosing the top 24 stories…
Read more on Sudden Denouement: https://suddendenouement.com/2019/02/21/update-on-the-sudden-denouement-short-story-contest/
Nicole Lyons’ stunning books, I Am a World of Uncertainties Disguised as a Girl and Blossom and Bone are currently on sale at Amazon for $9.99 each. Once Amazon’s stock of these books has been sold, these titles will NOT be available again. Don’t miss your chance to own these amazing books!
Read more: https://suddendenouement.com/2019/02/25/important-announcement-from-sudden-denouement-publishing/
Invincible artistry in Christine‘s words:
“blue and white capsules
ingested daily
devour my melancholy, baby
always ravenous
unsatisfied
they strip protective coating
off vulnerable neurons”
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/02/19/red-tides-christine-e-ray/
You can find Christine lurking about Brave and Reckless and Indie Blu(e) Publishing. She is the author of Composition of a Woman and The Myths of Girlhood.
Morning Mist – Iulia Halatz – for the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective
The mist that
covers my heart
is thick
numbing mornings
and evenings
with the sagacity
of a cubist artifact.
It comes in layers
clinging with fetid fingers
on to the gargoyles
of the old mansion
our love has become…
Read more: https://suddendenouement.com/2019/02/22/morning-mist-iulia-halatz/
Excerpt from the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I: Fall Flings/Aurora Phoenix
Sudden Denouement Publishing
a press for divergent writers fluent in the secret language
“We’ve been through the same routine, you and I:
me, coming home in a prescription haze with slurry speech
and a numbing nonchalance,
and you, broken and infuriated
to see me ‘waste my life away.’”
Nitin Lalit Murali is a poet, flash fiction writer and essayist from Bangalore, India. He also enjoys reading literature of different genres and listening to jazz and neo-classical music. He started writing seven years ago and art has consumed him over the years. He blogs regularly at Fighting the Dying Light
Tea and Turbulence (and flabbergasting beauty) by Aurora Phoenix
“was that mercury you dolloped
by the teaspoon brimming
into the cup of my tempest teeming?”
Read more: https://suddendenouement.com/2019/02/14/tea-and-turbulence-aurora-phoenix/
Aurora Phoenix is a wordsmithing oxymoron. Staid suburbanite cloaks a badass warrior wielding weapon grade phrases. Read more of her confabulations at Insights from “Inside.”
Excerpt from the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I: What Can I Give You? by Iulia Halatz
Sudden Denouement Publishing
a press for divergent writers fluent in the secret language
Me reciting Iulia’s glorious poem!
Recital on SoundCloud
https://misterkaki.blog/2018/08/31/melt-iulia-halatz-read-by-jonathan-ofarrell/
Thank you, Jonathan!
I have shared
land and sky
with you.
I have tasted
blood and honey.
My witch-oil turned
to dragon-fire
at your touch…
Soft fingers laid asleep
until your turmoil
woke them
for so long…
It feels like getting drunk
on old reddish wine
long softened
during times of
War
Equanimity
and
Comets.
What shall I pour in your glass?
Molten flowers
Golden ink
Lucid light
Unicorn mirth…
I dig your veins
for gold.
I find pure
bitter-sweet
amber nuggets.
I fear any story
whose ink
my words
can’t drink…
Yet I drip in yours
ever since.
When your arms call
and your lips
read all my feral kisses
How can there be no heaven?
© Iulia Halatz
I am delighted that this poem was included in the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I. The anthology is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
Heartpicking verse from Devika Mathur:
“And so I crumble in my own jaw line
Leaking from the iris,
A stoned mahogany stuck
Beneath the frivolous sky,..”
Read more: https://suddendenouement.com/2019/02/01/the-noise-of-this-brain/
Devika Mathur, a poetess from India, is a published poetess and is a lover of everything dark and surreal. Her work has been previously published in Sudden Denouement, Visual Verse, Dying dahlia review, two drops of ink, Madswirl, The rye whiskey review among various others. Find more of her musings at https://myvaliantsoulsblog.wordpress.com.