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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We Were Supposed to Watch the Kids Grow Old
A song once promised the ordinary miracle of growing old together; survival rewrites that future so the children can still grow, just without him.
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The Song Was Called Tomorrow
A love song called Tomorrow once promised a future; years later, it becomes proof that tenderness and danger once lived in the same story.
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The Song Was Called Don’t Go
A song begging her not to go once sounded like devotion; later, it reveals how easily being needed can masquerade as being loved.
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You Knew You Needed to Change
He knew he needed to change, and that knowledge became the very thing that kept hope alive long after recognition stopped meaning action.
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This Was Never a Game
A poem about being accused of playing games when the relationship had always been painfully real.
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You Left Me Between Drinks
One person’s heartbreak barely interrupts the other’s night out, revealing how unevenly love can end.
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Just Wanted to Get His Dick Wet
A cruel sentence reduces an entire relationship to sex, forcing a woman to separate being wanted from being loved.
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You Held Up My Skin for Strangers
A private body is turned into public spectacle, exposing not the woman in the photograph but the entitlement of the person who shared it.
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The Wall Behind Me Remembered
The wall keeps the mark even when memory tries to minimize it: something sharp crossed the room, and someone was standing there.
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He Always Missed
He always missed, but survival eventually stops treating bad aim as mercy and names the violence for what it was.
