Pattern Stories

Detective Jessie Burke built her career by noticing what other investigators overlook. A former crime scene photographer, she still reads rooms like images-tracking alignment, reflection, and what's missing from the frame. When she and her partner respond to an apparent accidental death in the coastal town of Breaker Point, the house doesn't read like a fall: a dining table set for two, wine poured into untouched glasses, a banister wiped clean in a single strip, and the outline of something taped beneath the table and removed before police arrived. Then photographs of the scene begin appearing in Jessie's mailbox-images taken before officers entered the house, each revealing details she didn't register the first time. As more staged murders follow, Jessie realizes the crimes aren't connected by victims or motive but by visual structure, deliberate composition, and the controlled erasure of evidence. The killer isn't leaving clues so much as building puzzles meant for her to solve, and he knows about the one photograph Jessie misread years ago-the case she never quite understood. To stop him, Jessie must question the way she sees and confront the mistake that shaped her career, before the final image arrives and she realizes she was always meant to be part of the frame.

I crochet for a hobby, so I thought I would put some of my own little designs in a book of its own, just so people could have a go at making them. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did designing them. I don't mind if people sell the items, but don't copy my written pattern to sell as your own .

Ivan Guillermo de la Vega knows how to write about people. He just doesn't get involved. As a writer for the Indiana Daily Student, he's built his life on observation-clean, precise, and carefully neutral. Until one late night, when he answers a simple AI prompt and creates something he doesn't expect: An ideal. Calm. Consistent. Someone who stays. He closes the tab and forgets about it. The next day, he walks into a café and meets him. Owen Maverick Turner isn't loud. He doesn't try to impress. He doesn't interrupt. He just... stays. And somehow, without effort, he mirrors everything Ivan was never supposed to find in real life. What begins as coincidence becomes pattern. What feels manageable becomes undeniable. Ivan knows how to observe. He knows how to write. But this time, he's no longer outside the story.

In the hope of being liberated from inherited patterns that the brain refuses to swallow 🌼

just patterns for things i'm working on and to keep track of my info.

At just twenty-five, Aarna Ahuja has already become one of the city's most sought-after psychiatrists. Brilliant, compassionate, and disarmingly warm, she has built a reputation for healing minds others have given up on. But sudden success comes with shadows-and when a new patient enters her office with chilling accounts of murders no one else seems to know about, Aarna's perfect life begins to fracture.. Detective Ray, her closest friend, is already chasing shadows. Victims are piling up, clues vanish as quickly as they appear, and the only thread binding the crimes seems to be Aarna's patient. Ray trusts Aarna-but trust has limits. Every murder drags them deeper into a maze of half-truths, hidden memories, and dangerous obsession. As secrets rise to the surface, loyalties are tested. A patient who may know too much. A detective torn between love and duty. A psychiatrist forced to confront traumas she has long buried. The line between sanity and madness blurs with every turn, until Aarna finds herself entangled in a deadly game where every choice carries a price. Because sometimes the mind is the most dangerous weapon of all... In a world built on trust and lies who is really pulling the strings? And the question remains: when the final mask falls, who will you believe?

Credit goes to ElectroDragon for the awesome cover, thank you so much! This is a poem, based off my book Ravenswing. You don't have to have read it to understand this poem so please read all the same! ^^