Suze Kay

Joined June 2021

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Pastry chef by day, insomniac writer by night.

Catch me here for spooky stories, crushable poems, and overall weird thoughts.

Or, let me catch you on my website!

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Venus
It's hard to be a woman in a world that wants you less Than a blow-up doll; than a dishwasher; than a coin-operated Jukebox cranking out the same tired hits.
By Suze Kay18 days ago in Poets
after the wedding
The shirt I pull on after still smells like me fresh after a shower, the magnolia oil I slathered on my limbs this morning in pumps of two or three or four:
By Suze Kay26 days ago in Poets
Five Weird Books I Read in 2023
Do you like reading books that walk the line between surrealist revelry and gritty, embodied horror? Me too. This list started as a way for me to figure out the five best books I read this year. As I made my selections, I realized that I was actually constructing a different list altogether. Here are some things that all of these books share:
By Suze Kayabout a month ago in BookClub
How to Remember
With silver dollars in my eyes, I lay the world to rest. Beyond my vision lives a land that's tender. It's made of letters that you wrote; of hotel rooms with down pillows and wafers of olive oil soap; of kisses dotted on my belly. It exists only here.
By Suze Kayabout a month ago in Poets
Top Story - November 2023
enoughTop Story - November 2023
April 7, 2022. 9:14AM. farm-fresh eggs, with nubbly blue shells that crack in divine geometry butter, churned and smacked and salted by an Amish neighbor flour, finely milled, puffing scattered clouds from a torn corner sugar, spilling crystalline and pure as last month's snow salt, carrying the taste of the sea and the smell of nothing rhubarb, slender and stringy, with neon bulbs and bloody tips strawberries, small as my thumbnail, ripe enough to stain my canvas bag lemons, bright and waxy, sour enough to find my scratches a pie dish, deep enough to hold a dream, but not so deep I lose myself
By Suze Kayabout a month ago in Poets
Period.
Jacket tied on waist, Standing in the empty train - Bargaining with blood.
By Suze Kayabout a month ago in Poets
Adventures in Perilocentrism
It's not that Kelly's clumsy or disorganized; it's just that bad things keep happening to her. She discovers she's allergic to shellfish at her brother's wedding. She takes a piece of cake, not realizing it's a corner piece being saved for the birthday girl. She gets hit by a bus with broken brakes.
By Suze Kay2 months ago in Fiction
First Place in Nourished Challenge
A cookie to change your career, bag you a spouse, and make your world better.First Place in Nourished Challenge
2020 was a year of dark clouds with silver linings. When New York City shut down, my boyfriend and I fled to the coast and moved in with my family. It was supposed to be four weeks.
By Suze Kay2 months ago in Feast
Runner-Up in Unspoken Challenge
KnockingRunner-Up in Unspoken Challenge
The husbands carried supplies: cereals, water jugs, buckets, books and batteries. We wives carried the children, and the children carried small pieces of comfort in their little hands, smelling of sleep.
By Suze Kay2 months ago in Fiction
Outside
It was a house like all houses. She was a girl like all girls. From the picture window, Daisy could wave at Nina. But Nina had stopped waving back.
By Suze Kay3 months ago in Futurism
On Holiness
In 2010, I wrote a poem and called it Holy. I wrote it for my English class and was astonished to learn it won a school-wide prize. There was some furor: I was a lowly Fourth Former, and prizes were typically handed to departing Sixth Formers. The William Otis Smith Prize for English Verse was my first major award, an achievement I remain achingly proud of years after the fact.
By Suze Kay3 months ago in Writers
How to float
I know your kind has hovered here before - A pilot filmed you tricking twixt two blues. But did you smell it? Taste it? Spot its hues?
By Suze Kay3 months ago in Poets