R. L. Pence writes at the seam where speculative fiction meets the gothic interior — stories preoccupied with memory, complicity, and the soft tyrannies dressed up as love. His work is less interested in the machinery of dystopia than in the people who learn to live inside it, and what remains of them when they refuse. He listens for what the architecture remembers: the violence that learns to whisper.
He is the author of Our Quiet Violence, and founder of Echo Imprints. He writes from the Old Coast of Florida, where memories are often lost to the tide.
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