About me
R.B. Rouge writes like she’s outrunning a curse and testifying at the same time. Her stories bleed Southern shadows — stitched from secrets, scars, and the kind of family you survive by storytelling.
This ain’t a healing circle. It’s a holy reckoning. Misfitted, and mouthy, she names what others won’t and calls it fiction so it makes it past the gatekeepers.
She writes for the bloodline-bound, the code-breakers, and the ones who hear static in their dreams.
Because the truth?
Still costs too damn much.
Inspired by Actual Events:
Some inherit land. Some inherit wealth. Ramey inherited trauma.
Tobacco-Stained Prayers is a Southern Gothic tale of survival, superstition, and family curses. Told through the eyes of a child growing up in the bayou, the story carries readers through backroads churches, kitchen-table confessions, and motel-room drug deals. It moves between the tenderness of a father who swears to protect his daughter and the brutal reality of a family drowning in secrets, addiction, and violence.
When her father’s past begins to bleed into her present—mob ties, military scars, and whispers of experiments nobody dares name—Ramey learns that not all hauntings are made of ghosts. Some are stitched into bloodlines. Some wear badges. Some sit at your own supper table.
Both brutal and tender, dark and prophetic, this is the opening chapter of The Hauntborne Files—a saga where love and ruin walk hand in hand, and every generation must decide what chains to break, and what ones to pass on.
Tobbacco Stained Prayers
by: R.B. Rouge