Laurence Vale writes psychological fiction and personal narratives rooted in lived experience.

His work explores control, emotional neglect, and the long-term impact of growing up in environments where authority replaces care and silence becomes survival. While some of his stories take fictional form, others draw directly from childhood, adolescence, and adulthood - reflecting the lasting echoes of family dynamics and the process of reclaiming one's own voice.

His Shadowed Leash examines how control can be mistaken for love, while The House That Echoes Me moves closer to lived reality, tracing how early emotional patterns follow a person into adult life.