Not every beautiful thing is meant to be touched. Some of them have teeth.
Where Desire Grows Thorns
This is where romance gets darker around the edges. Where longing becomes fixation, tenderness learns how to bite, and the heart knowingly reaches for things it probably should leave alone.
Velvet & Venom holds dark romance, forbidden desire, obsession, intimacy, ruin, recovery, monsters, temptation, and the dangerous devotion we sometimes mistake for salvation.
Choose Your Poison
Latest from Velvet & Venom
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The Quietest Knock
Funny,how ghosts never knock. They just find the window,press their palms against the glass,and call it curiosity. I wonder what you came looking for—a confession,a villain,proof that the storyyou were handedstill fits neatly in your mouth. Careful. Poetry has teeth. And some gardensonly look beautifulbecause you cannot seewhat was buried beneath them. You may read…
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I Saw You Today
Seeing them again makes the heart remember softness for one second before reality answers with the distance that ended it.
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The Door Is Still There
The same door remains, but the woman behind it no longer mistakes hunger for love or scraps for a meal.
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I Would Have Stayed
She was willing to stay through fear and mess, but love could not survive being the only person still reaching.
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My Phone Stopped Feeling Like a Graveyard
One morning she stopped checking for the name that never appeared, and the phone finally became an object instead of a graveyard.
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You Don’t Get to Miss Me Now
Missing her later does not erase the silence that taught her what absence weighs when love refuses to show up.
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I Buried the Future We Planned
She had already furnished a future in her mind before realizing she was the only one still carrying the keys.
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You Taught Me How to Lose You
The goodbye arrived so slowly she mistook it for distance, until silence had already taught her how to live without them.
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You Came Back After I Stopped Waiting
They returned after the door had already changed meaning and loneliness was no longer enough reason to let them back in.
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What I Should Have Survived
Some cravings survive long after the danger does, leaving the body to remember what the mind already knows was poison.
Between Bruises & Blooms 