Greetings.
My name is Kevin Perryman. I grew up in a city that does not forgive, Stockton, California. I spent twenty years in the United States Army. What remained was a body that barely works and a mind that refused to work at all.
I wrote these stories to survive myself.
The Hollow Sword Master is not about magic swords. It is about a man with PTSD who externalizes his trauma into a fantasy world so he can finally see it for what it is.
Knuckle's Legacy is not about a demon hunter. It is about a father learning that love cannot be weaponized, and that the only way to save your family is to let them save you.
FyreBurn is not about elemental powers. It is about what happens when survival mechanisms become prisons, and the only way out is to accept the pain you've been running from.
This library does not offer escape. It offers diagnosis.
Every story here is free to read. Every word is a map of a territory I had to cross alone — so you don't have to.
If you are a veteran, a trauma survivor, or just someone who has ever felt like a war inside your head will never end: you are not alone. You are not broken. You are not beyond saving.
Welcome to the Lighthouse Library.
— Kevin
If you want to support this library, the best thing you can do is tell one other person who needs these stories. That's it.
The three flagships
Start with whichever war you recognize first.
Series · 5 books
The Hollow Sword Master
A best friend's desperate rescue mission into a fantasy world becomes a psychological odyssey to reassemble his best friend's shattered soul.
Read the free sampleSeries · 2 books
Knuckle's Legacy
A patriarch's idyllic life is annihilated, thrusting him into a war against a manipulative time god, forcing him to lead his family in a final, sacrificial argument for their own existence.
Read on SubstackStandalone · Retaliate
FyreBurn
A tale of two spore-beasts, whose lives are upended by the Retaliate — a war against their erasure. Armed with otherworldly tools, they fight for their right to tell their story against odds that deemed them too inferior to live.
Read on SubstackThe road to 100 stories
This is the library as it stands today. Titles without a link are still being written.
- The Hollow Sword Master
- Knuckle's Legacy
- FyreBurn
- Soul Wars Stories: Lightspeed
- Soul Wars: J-Clan
- Soul Wars Legends: The Avalonian's Choice
- The Wrong Kind of Perfectin progress
- Rowen Lost Stories: HonorBound
- Rowen Lost Stories: Redemptionin progress
- Rowen Shorts: Evacuation Exercises
- Rowen Legends: The Book of Ridel
- Covenant Stories: Operative Sanchez
- Lost Stories: The Alchemist
- Lost Stories: After the Seventh Shot
- Lost Stories: Halloween Tale — Transgressions
- Lost Stories: Grains of Sand
- Lost Stories: Standpoint
- Soul War Stories: Tempera's Storyin progress
- Lost Poems: Dear You, Only You, Runaway, Darkness Rules The Night
- The Great Rowen Adventure!