First podcast episode has dropped! Check it out HERE! It features a reading of Covenant the first poem in my poetry collection that was released in February! Grab your copy of Lamentations on Living HERE! Copyright(c) 2026 Rayven Holmes

I'm a quarter of the way through with my first round of edits. Slow and steady. Slow and steady. Slow and steady... Planning to set up the Kickstarter later this weekend. I've been fleshing out the timeline while making edits. I'm excited and absolutely fucking terrified. Here's to doing the damn thing scared! You can find my current poetry book and information on my upcoming novel HERE! Rya ! Copyright(c) 2026 Rayven Holmes

I wrote this in 2015. It has taken me 11 years to finally post it. This piece has been updated to include more inclusive language. This has been six years in the making. Six years of saying I’m fine and I’ve moved on, when the opposite is true. A lot can happen in a day. Whole worlds change, you can experience heart-bursting joy or earth-shattering pain in just one course of 24 hours. You can even experience both at the same time. Oh, to experience both. To cry and laugh, that’s...