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Raymond Brunell

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Horror, Paranormal, Psychology

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I write literary horror and speculative fiction that explores what happens when the structures we trust—language, consciousness, memory, time itself—start to collapse.

My self-published novels include The Memory Keepers Series (literary magical realism exploring neurodivergent perception, inherited trauma, and the boundaries between memory and reality), The Chosen Tenant (architectural horror about ADHD medication that literalizes every idiom in a haunted Victorian house), and standalone works examining consciousness, identity, and psychological dissolution.

In Faces in the Water, prosopagnosia becomes a supernatural gift when an artist discovers her neurological condition allows her to paint portraits of the disappeared—people preserved in a I write literary horror and speculative fiction that explores what happens when the structures we trust—language, consciousness, memory, time itself—start to collapse.

My self-published novels include The Memory Keepers Series (literary magical realism exploring neurodivergent perception, inherited trauma, and the boundaries between memory and reality), The Chosen Tenant (architectural horror about ADHD medication that literalizes every idiom in a haunted Victorian house), and standalone works examining consciousness, identity, and psychological dissolution.

In Faces in the Water, prosopagnosia becomes a supernatural gift when an artist discovers her neurological condition allows her to paint portraits of the disappeared—people preserved in a lake that archives consciousness itself. In The Chosen Tenant, Elliott's ADHD medication doesn't just sharpen his focus—it manifests every careless phrase into literal, physical form, creating an Archive of rooms he must document, contain, and survive.

I write about bodies that catalogue their own dissolution, algorithms that monetize grief, neurodivergent perception as gateway to otherworldly truth, and the small dignities we surrender to appear functional. My work examines what remains when human systems fail, when the dead persist in unexpected ways, and when attention becomes its own form of haunting.

My short fiction has appeared in over 40 publications including Necessary Fiction, TrashLight Press, PulpCult, Across the Margin, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Skeleton Flowers Press. I often employ experimental structures—second-person narration that interrogates complicity, procedural formats that spiral into horror, meta-narratives where the telling becomes as unstable as what's being told.

Born and raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, I draw on the region's stark landscapes and long silences to explore themes of isolation, transformation, and the stories we tell when human language proves insufficient.

Find more of my work at www.unbound-atlas.com ...more

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	The Clock Forgets Me 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Redaction Pattern 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“When I open the case and give the pendulum a gentle push, it swings three times and then stops, as if it has forgotten how to keep going.”
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