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The Redaction Pattern
136 pages, Paperback
Published September 15, 2025
About the author
Raymond Brunell
13 booksI 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
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
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February 21, 2026
This was an interesting read, that’s for sure! Reflective techno thriller with a deadly cat and mouse game.
The writing style is fluent and the story pulled me in from the first page.
I kept turning page after page because I wanted to know what would happen. The suspense in this book was brilliant!.
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The writing style is fluent and the story pulled me in from the first page.
I kept turning page after page because I wanted to know what would happen. The suspense in this book was brilliant!.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
March 17, 2026
My word, I felt like I was watching the news instead of reading this book. It's scarily accurate..,.or close to. It's hard to believe this is supposed to be a fictional book. It's good. Don't get me wrong. But, yeah, kind of creepy with how parallel it is to today. If you like these kinds of thrills, this is for you. It will make you think as well.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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