K. M. RIVERA

K. M. RIVERA

Stories about what we carry, what we lose, and what remains.

Stories about what we carry, what we lose, and what remains.

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Tangerine Whiskey

Tangerine Whiskey

A story of restraint, grief, loyalty, and the dangerous intimacy of being truly known.

A story of restraint, grief, loyalty, and the dangerous intimacy of being truly known.

“It was strange how quickly silence changed once someone had been inside it.”

“It was strange how quickly silence changed once someone had been inside it.”

— Tangerine Whiskey

Works in Progress

Works in Progress

The Memory Painter

The Memory Painter

In a world where memory can be taken, stored, and returned, one woman begins asking questions everyone else has learned not to ask.

Unfinished Things

Unfinished Things

On a small island shaped by loss, two people carrying unfinished grief are forced to confront what survival asked them to leave behind.

Fragments

Fragments

A Hell That Doesn't Burn

A Hell That Doesn't Burn

There Are Things We Survive Incorrectly

There Are Things We Survive Incorrectly

The Things We Confess Only to Ourselves

The Things We Confess Only to Ourselves

Behind the Pages

Behind the Pages

K. M. Rivera writes character-driven fiction about memory, grief, devotion, identity, and the choices that quietly alter a life. Her stories move between contemporary and speculative worlds, but remain rooted in intimate human relationships and the things people struggle to say out loud.

K. M. Rivera writes character-driven fiction about memory, grief, devotion, identity, and the choices that quietly alter a life. Her stories move between contemporary and speculative worlds, but remain rooted in intimate human relationships and the things people struggle to say out loud.

Letters from K. M. Rivera

Letters from K. M. Rivera

New stories, book news, fragments from the writing desk, and occasional glimpses behind the pages.