Suze Kay

Joined June 2021

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Bio

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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Stories (55/0)

Heat Waves
Challenge #1 Sweet Summer Song: Pick a song that represents summer for you. Use the song as the title of your piece, and to inspire either a poem or a short story/micro fiction about summer. Feel free to use some of the song's lyrics in your piece as well. So what does summer feel like for you? For the main James & Oneg Summer Writing Challenge Extravaganza, click here.
By Suze Kay2 months ago in Poets
Seconds Between Them
She came in with the storm. If you believed the news, the Eastern Seaboard was drowning: Hurricane Harry dragged tidewaters up and over train tracks, beach clubs, and highways on its steady way north. I'd prepared Declan for the eventuality that she might not make it to us. It wouldn't have been the first time. But she left Philly just in time to stay ahead of the floods and the worst of the weather, pulling her car into the garage as the first fat drops of rain fell on the driveway. When he heard the low thrum of the garage door heaving open, Declan abandoned his markers.
By Suze Kay2 months ago in Fiction
Fat Pants
How lovely it is to be forgiven, cradled. When I feel like bursting at the seams, make them elastic. // I want them natural, meltless in the hot breath of the kiln.
By Suze Kay2 months ago in Poets
Top Story - July 2023
Wilmington, NCTop Story - July 2023
You feel the call coming for days, across the eastern seaboard. Pressure building to the South: texts with alarming frequency, fear
By Suze Kay2 months ago in Poets
Junk Light
We spent a week's worth of nights awake at the flickering altar. It made sense to us. What was budding was secret, and the night was made for secrets.
By Suze Kay2 months ago in Poets
In Motion
Bring me to the place you’ve dreamed of. The bed upstairs, the raft in the cool, still lake. // Peach juice, sticky sweet, running
By Suze Kay2 months ago in Poets
Top Story - July 2023
WeekenderTop Story - July 2023
In dry summers like this one, Manhattan is disgusting. Dog piss bakes on tarmac, human shit blooms rank in the dark corners of subway stations. The new grass in every park, pampered by spring rain, is trampled under careless feet and picnic blankets until it’s nothing more than powder. In the country, no rain means fire, or crop loss, or sometimes just the disappointment of a wilting garden. In the city, it’s the death of human civility.
By Suze Kay2 months ago in Fiction
Storming
There's magic in this world and I'm learning how to find it. On a hot day, mist gathers in the meat aisle and I drift through it.
By Suze Kay3 months ago in Poets
Moon Tide
In the dawn, you are a mess and I love you. Our cat nips and mews for pets, cold nose in my neck. I push her off, but you fold her in a hug and I love you more.
By Suze Kay3 months ago in Poets
Bodies
BODIES // Pilot: Training to Failure Fade in on a young BRETT MONDO, dressed in 90's workout gear and rippling with muscles, standing before a gleaming row of exercise machines. He gestures to the camera.
By Suze Kay3 months ago in Humor
Hard Conversations
In 2016, I almost flunked out of Yale. Depression crept in and kept me hostage to the comfort of my dorm room, where I could sleep all day and rewatch the same stale TV. My junk show of choice was Friends. I liked the predictable plot flow: problem, complication, resolution. Inevitably, the canned dialogue lulled me into a dreamless slumber.
By Suze Kay3 months ago in Men
Top Story - June 2023
How the Light Gets InTop Story - June 2023
On Sunday, I joined two of my childhood friends at the Museum of Modern Art. Our main goal was to view "To See Takes Time," an exhibition of Georgia O'Keeffe's lesser-known works on paper.
By Suze Kay4 months ago in Art