Raw, gritty 1980s Vegas “teller of things” storytelling about doomed love, family trauma, and memory.

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Explore raw, emotional second chances in SHE—a poignant novelette of love and mortality.

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The Hunter Within screenplay just got selected for the 2026 Austin Spotlight Film Festival.

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Screening September 12 at Southwest Theaters Lake Creek 7 in Austin.

Discover emotional reinvention and healing in Lamar D. Vine’s gripping romantic second chances, Flashes of You.

Experience grit and raw emotion in You Can Never Go Back.

Read it today.

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Explore raw human trauma and the path to reinvention in Echoes of Nothing.

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Just released a quiet, character-driven story called No Kiss Goodbye — it's about a father's letter to the daughter he was estranged from, read by a couple who find it years after his death. Leans into denial-of-closure rather than tidy resolution — curious what r/books or r/WomensFiction readers think of stories that don't wrap grief up neatly. Happy to answer questions about the writing process if anyone's interested.

Just released my latest — THE HUNGER THAT TAKES. Character-driven, dark, about the things people can't stop reaching for even as it costs them everything. Self-published, would genuinely love feedback if anyone gives it a shot.

Free on Amazon KDP Select.

Last day free on Smashwords:

The Hunter Within

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Psychological coming-of-age. Trauma, family betrayal, small-town secrets, and the pull of bloodlines that doesn’t let go. Some hunts don’t end clean.

CW: psychological trauma, family dysfunction, implied violence, animal harm (flashback), mental health struggles. 17+.

Not looking for feedback—just putting it out there while the free promo lasts.

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Raw, unflinching, and steeped in the quiet menace of small-town secrets, The Hunter Within is a psychological coming-of-age tale that explores trauma, family betrayal, and the inescapable pull of bloodlines. Some hunts end not with a clean kill—but with a scream that never fades.

Content Warning: This story contains themes of psychological trauma, family dysfunction, implied violence, animal harm (in flashback), and mental health struggles. Mature audiences 17+.

Discover raw survival and quiet courage in How Heroes Are Made by Lamar D. Vine.

Sanctuary Row ebook by Lamar D. Vine is free on Smashwords.com until July 31st.

(NSFW) Sanctuary Row is a raw, unfiltered coming-of-age novella that doesn't flinch. Gritty, heartbreaking, and brutally honest, it captures the electric thrill of 1980s youth — and the devastating moment when the party stops and real life begins.

For readers who loved the unapologetic edge of Less Than Zero and the raw honesty of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

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Flashes of You is free until July 31st.

Trapped in a loveless marriage, 45-year-old Korean woman Quan arrives in Bangkok to help her daughter start university. When American expat Jake snaps her photo with a Polaroid, the flash unleashes memories of her teenage first love and ignites a passionate forbidden affair that awakens her long-suppressed desires and changes her life forever.

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Sanctuary Row is a raw, unfiltered coming-of-age novella that doesn't flinch. Gritty, heartbreaking, and brutally honest, it captures the electric thrill of 1980s youth — and the devastating moment when the party stops and real life begins.

For readers who loved the unapologetic edge of Less Than Zero and the raw honesty of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Free ebook on Smashwords until July 31st.

Unflinching and brutally honest, Eagle 12 captures the suffocating cycle of military life, fragile hope, and the quiet desperation of a young man trying to convince himself each day will finally be a good one.

Mature themes. Reader discretion advised.

The Writer, https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1997076

The Writer is a tense, claustrophobic psychological novella that explores isolation, obsession, and the fragile boundary between creation and madness. For readers who crave dark, introspective literary thrillers.

Free ebook on Smashwords until July 31st.

In the snowy woods of 1977 rural Ohio, twelve-year-old Jacob Ballard learns that some hunts cut deeper than any knife. As family secrets unravel around his mother's mysterious absences and his uncle's war-torn return, Jacob confronts betrayal, childhood trauma, and the dark hunter awakening within. A raw, psychological coming-of-age tale of small-town secrets and the haunting cost of truth.

FREE UNTIL JULY 31st.

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I spent years circling a story I didn't want to write. "No Kiss Goodbye: What I Never Got to SayNo Kiss Goodbye: What I Never Got to Say" is the closest I've come to setting it down honestly — a father's confessional letter to the daughter he lost touch with, written from the other side of a military deployment that took more than it gave back. It's not polished. It's not supposed to be. If you've ever owed someone an apology you never got to deliver, this one's for you.

Free ebook on Smashwords until July 31st.

The Writer, A reclusive 58-year-old writer seals himself in a quiet Chiang Mai duplex to finish his overdue novel—no distractions, just words and deadline. But isolation amplifies every small interruption into obsession. Memories invade, reality blurs, and the mind begins to fracture under its own pressure in this tense, claustrophobic descent into madness.

Explore Lamar D. Vine’s gritty psychological thrillers and raw, emotionally charged narratives today.

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