Atmospheric Fiction

R. L. Bales The Garden
R. L. Bales: The Garden

She writes quiet, atmospheric fiction shaped by mood, observation, and psychological tension. Her work is drawn to subtle power dynamics, controlled environments, and the unspoken moments where awareness begins to shift. Rather than spectacle, she favors restraint, allowing tension, beauty, and unease to unfold gradually on the page.

An LGBTQ+ author, she centers LGBTQ+ characters in her work, often at the core of the narrative. Their identities are not treated as spectacle, but as lived reality informing relationships, intimacy, and internal landscapes.

Rebecca lives in Northern California, where the landscape often informs the tone of her work. She continues to write stories that linger, inviting readers to sit with what is seen, sensed, and left unsaid.

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I rocked him back and forth as my mind went blank. I couldn’t move; I couldn’t leave my only friend. The person who had saved me from myself and from the cruelest winter I had ever known. This was my fault; he didn’t want to leave the cabin; he didn’t want to come here. He knew something bad was going to happen. I refused to listen. This was on me.