Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன்

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temporary obsessions, writer, stories in Apex, Lightspeed, khōréō, The Baltimore Review etc, editor at Otherside Spec, Clarion West '25, agent: Keir Alekseii @ ALA rukmanragas.com

There's so much I wish I'd done with my life, I made so many misplays big and small, lost things I didn't know I was losing. Different lives, different paths I didn't walk. But then I look at this one that's found me, unasked but oh so gently mine. And I find myself warmed, like there's a tiny, comforting sun under my skin. "What a privilege", I like to whisper, "what a privilege is to love words"

With no need for a beginning, nor any reason to end, the music continues. And so, no matter who you are, where you came from, what sins you have committed or hurt you have endured... when you are alone and there is no universe left to remember you.
You can always, always rewrite your song.
Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

Inner worlds issue 5 cover featuring the painting ""Waiting For a Single Taco at 8pm on a Tuesday" by Anka Yanovna". A blue-green girl is holding a phone among a kaleidoscope of colors. Cats stretch, move, and fluff. Stars, hearts and moons of various colors abound. Its beautiful

What Tales Demand by Rukman Ragas

When it snows, think of me. You taste those words on your silent lips, trace their shapes across your inkstained palms. The weight of a story in them is unmistakable, and for a seasoned storykeeper, they taste like metal, like gold, like blood. You stand before the hired boat and look at where your chase has led you.

Genshin Impact

She Who Became The Sun Cover

"You tend to the trees with stipulated grief"

Against a black background with a white, dead tree