Ran Kime is the author of psychological fiction, philosophical speculative fiction, and literary realism. His work examines memory, identity, addiction, grief, and the unseen forces that shape a life, often through the lens of working class New England.
Across novels, short stories, poetry, and spoken word, Kime writes character driven stories marked by psychological depth, emotional realism, and moral ambiguity. His work rarely offers neat resolutions, because some truths can only be understood by looking backward.
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Ran Kime Books & Collections
These books span psychological fiction, autofiction, short stories, poetry, and lyrics—each offering a different way in. Some stay close to lived experience. Others distort memory, fracture time, or lean into abstraction. Start anywhere. The work is connected.
Memoirs of the Felmed Coof
Psychological autofiction novel | Coming-of-age | New England
Memoirs of the Felmed Coof is a dark, psychologically intimate coming-of-age novel set in the working-class shadows of New England. Memoirs of the Felmed Coof follows Shane McAlister as grief, loyalty, addiction, and violence quietly shape the man he is becoming. Parents fade. Friends fracture. Love arrives with conditions. Memory becomes unreliable—not because it lies, but because it protects.
Written as autofiction, the novel treats truth as elastic rather than sacred. Timelines blur. Names shift. What matters is the emotional residue left behind. This is a story about survival without heroics, growing up without guidance, and the slow accumulation of damage that feels ordinary while it’s happening…..Read more about the novel
Paperback · 6×9 · 550 pages · ISBN: 979-8-2955-1318-3
White Flags or Toe Tags
Dark psychological short stories | Crime-adjacent | Moral collapse
White Flags or Toe Tags is a dark psychological short story collection that explores what happens when endurance replaces hope and survival becomes a form of quiet violence. These stories move through addiction, grief, fractured memory, and moral exhaustion, following characters who are not chasing redemption but negotiating damage.
Set largely in the emotional and working-class landscapes of New England, the collection examines inherited silences, bad decisions, and the slow accumulation of loss. Kime’s psychological fiction blurs realism with distortion, allowing moments to arrive out of order, memories to repeat with altered edges, and truth to bend under the pressure of trauma.
What emerges is not a search for meaning, but an honest accounting of what remains when resilience is mistaken for strength and survival becomes a lifelong condition……Explore the short stories
Paperback · 6×9 · 104 pages · ISBN: 979-8348118822
Spectre of the Brocken : Halo for the Observer
Abstract fiction & poetry | Perception | Isolation
Spectre of the Brocken : Halo for the Observer is an abstract, atmospheric collection that leans into isolation, perception, and the uncanny psychology of observation. These stories blur the line between internal experience and external reality, asking how much of what we see is shaped by fear, grief, or longing.
With a colder, more experimental edge, Spectre of the Brocken explores the haunting nature of memory and the way identity fractures when the self becomes both witness and subject……Explore the collection
Paperback · 6×9 · 108 pages · ISBN: 978-1088055496
Way Past Tipsy & Other Silent Cries for Help…
Poetry & spoken word | Addiction | Dark humor & self-reckoning
Way Past Tipsy & Other Silent Cries for Help… is a raw collection of poetry and spoken-word pieces that document addiction, shame, self-awareness, and dark humor without romanticizing any of it. These poems read like internal monologues—sometimes confessional, sometimes observational—capturing the moment when coping mechanisms stop working and honesty becomes unavoidable.
The tone is direct, unsentimental, and often uncomfortable, written for readers who recognize the quiet danger of being “fine” for too long…..Read the stories
Paperback · 6×9 · 78 pages · ISBN: 979-8869354433
Just Words…The Lyrics & Shenanigans of the dirty li’ trollops
Lyrics & band life | Music | Chaos & identity
Just Words…The Lyrics & Shenanigans of the dirty li’ trollops is a collection of lyrics, fragments, and narrative detours drawn from Kime’s work as a songwriter. Less polished than the fiction, but no less intentional, Just Words captures the same thematic concerns—identity, chaos, self-destruction—filtered through music and performance.
This volume offers a different entry point into the work: looser, louder, and more immediate, while still tethered to the same psychological terrain……Explore the lyrics & stories
Paperback · 6×9 · 150 pages · ISBN: 979-8868994135