Dust and Mercy
A 1959 Appalachian Good Samaritan retelling about land, justice, faith, and the cost of becoming a neighbor when it matters.
Books by R. M. Kiser
Stories across worlds, rooted in truth.
Appalachian literary fiction, contemporary stories of love and loss, and mythic fantasy — different landscapes, connected by memory, moral choice, and people learning how to carry what remains.
The Letters We Couldn't Read
A father and son discover the letters a wife and mother left behind — words written forward into the days she knew would hurt most.
The Echo Rewritten
In Bridgefall, history is stored in stormglass. One archivist inherits a record proving the official past was deliberately rewritten.
Series
The Echoes of Bridgefall
The Echo Rewritten is Book One in a planned trilogy set in a city where memory is infrastructure and official history can be edited.
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