Set in a 1959 Appalachian valley, Dust and Mercy follows Eli McKinnon, a third-generation farmer whose quiet stewardship of inherited land is...
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R. M. Kiser
R. M. Kiser is a storyteller from Kingsport, Tennessee whose fiction finds its way to people who are hurting, questioning, or quietly searching for something true. Writing began as an anniversary gift for his wife of nearly 31 years. After her passing in early 2025, the stories kept coming — and they still do. She is somewhere in all of them, even the ones that do not look like grief.
His work spans mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, faith-based parables, and a foster-care series that gives voice to those too often unheard. He writes characters shaped by crisis and survival, grounding them in emotional truth without flinching.
A proud father to a son adopted from foster care and a committed community theater volunteer, Kiser lives surrounded by one puppy and three cats. His work does not promise resolution. It promises presence — the quiet, sustaining sense that someone else has seen what you are carrying and did not look away.
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R. M. Kiser is a storyteller from Kingsport, Tennessee whose fiction finds its way to people who are hurting, questioning, or quietly searching for something true. Writing began as an anniversary gift for his wife of nearly 31 years. After her passing in early 2025, the stories kept coming — and they still do. She is somewhere in all of them, even the ones that do not look like grief.
His work spans mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction,...
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Dust and Mercy
Set in a 1959 Appalachian valley, Dust and Mercy follows Eli McKinnon, a third-generation farmer whose quiet stewardship of inherited land is disrupted when a boundary dispute and the roadside beating of an itinerant laborer named Lester Combs force his tight-knit community into a reckoning. The valley’s response to both crises reveals the...
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The Letters We Couldn’t Read: A Story of Love, Faith, and the Light that Stayed
Some love stories are written in the moment.
Others are written afterward—when the house is quiet, the air is heavy, and the words arrive not as memories, but as echoes.
The Letters We Couldn’t Read is a deeply intimate novel about love that endures, grief that reshapes a life, and the quiet faith that remains when everything else is stripped...
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The Echo Rewritten: Book One of The Echoes of Bridgefall
When the city’s memory becomes a weapon, the hunt begins.
Branded traitor after the Glass Bridge collapse, Serenya Nerio must gather the stormglass shards that hold Bridgefall’s true history before the Council rewrites the past into a weapon—and before they use her stolen voice as the final lie.
The Echo Rewritten is a dark, atmospheric fantasy...
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Occasional letters from R. M. Kiser — about the work, the stories, and the questions that won't leave him alone.
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Occasional letters from R. M. Kiser — about the work, the stories, and the questions that won't leave him alone.