The Drowning Season: Stories from Raymond

By N S Streets

In Raymond, Washington, the rain erases things. Street signs. Property lines. The difference between the bay and the sky.

Harvey Swick runs a bookstore where the shelves are organized by feeling-grief on the east wall, wonder on the south, and the books that bite back locked safely behind glass. He's been alive for five hundred years. He's been running for most of them.

But Raymond has a way of making people stay.

In these five connected stories, a centuries-old witch faces the sins he's spent lifetimes fleeing. A woman cursed into the body of a cat for four hundred years finally speaks her own name. A teenage girl learns that seeing the future doesn't mean you can change it. And a small-town deputy discovers that the town she's sworn to protect was built on a bargain no one told her about.

The Drowning Season collects the first five Harvey Swick stories into a single volume-a complete arc of watching, reckoning, and becoming. Because in Raymond, the water remembers everything. And some debts always come due.

Contains:

The Voice Thief

The Weight of Small Bones

The Door He Left Open

What the Water Wants

The Drowning Season

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GKT9SYWP
• ISBN13: 9798233438820
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: N. S. Streets
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"