Records and document research
Gather, read, and organize official papers, correspondence, and the written trail of a matter. This includes looking for omissions, contradictions, and patterns the file does not announce.
El Sol
Services
The working room of the practice: official records, contested accounts, and what a file leaves in the dark. Write to inquire. There is no payment form on this site.
How the work is done
The record first, then the pattern it hides
Robin Graves reads official papers, correspondence, and the written trail of a matter as checkable sources. A public record is treated as a public record. Personal testimony is marked as testimony.
Dark patterns, as this practice uses the words, are not a sales trick and not a branded product. They are the omissions, contradictions, and deceptive structures that can sit inside a file, a timeline, or an official story. The work is to bring those patterns into the light, or to say plainly when the practice cannot.
Correspondence and filings support
Help preparing clear letters and documentary support, so the written record says only what it can actually support.
Matters that touch the unseen
Support where a case, a record, or a personal history meets the supernatural, the unexplained, or a contested official account.
Research for Life After Lies
Source work, chronology, and inquiry connected to Life After Lies, the memoir and compiled work of Robin Graves.
Consultation
A conversation to see whether the practice can help, and on what terms. No fee, retainer, or license is named on this page.
Referral and direction
When the work belongs somewhere else, a clear pointer rather than a promise that cannot be kept.
This page is not a public offer of legal representation, and it does not name a license, a retainer, or a fee. Write to inquire. There is no password field and no payment form on this site. Artifacts and merch are further down.
Featured artifact
Chamber & Pot, Pot in Chamber
Bolesławiec Polish pottery pitcher and bowl. Blue and white, handmade in Poland, a Greek KEY ring round the rim, and a big smooth handle. Stamped Bolesławiec.
Back in the day, before the plumbing came indoors, a good chamber set was a family's pride. A little piece of the olden daze, in porcelain blue. KEY ways and means. 1 Pride pot.
Marked down: was $129 and 9/10, now $99 and 9/10.
To publishers: this story is one small piece of the Book of Books, LIFEAFTERLIES, collector's edition. If it made you laugh, think, or wince, there is a whole library behind it.
Direct sale
Write to inquire about pickup or shipping. Photographs of this piece are on the way. This site does not take payment, and there is no checkout here.
Butt Weight: THERE'S ALWAYS MORE!
Coming, when the pictures are right
More artifacts from the work
These next pieces wait on photographs, then a proper listing. Until then, they sit here as a notice, not a sale.
Tall hand-carved wood sculpture
Abstract female form, dark stain, freestanding, a little over 3 feet tall. Maker unknown, sold as-is.
Write to inquire.
LAL-MAD-01, a lot of 11
Vintage MAD magazines and annuals, including More Trash from MAD 10th with the stickers page still in it, and the September 1966 Special Summer Camp issue, No. 105.
Write to inquire.
Bird vase and bust
White ceramic vase with a hand-painted bird on a branch, plus a white glazed bust, sold together as a pair, as-is.
Write to inquire.
No payment is taken on this site. Robin will decide what flies, and when.
Everything with a C
Calendars, clocks, cups, cards, and shirts
Artistry you can hold. The C's belong with the Book of Books, and with the holiday work under El Sol since 6 September 2026.
2027 13-moon holiday calendar
A 13-moon calendar for 2027, tied to the holiday videos since 6 September 2026, and to the El Sol origin story.
Pre-interest list only. If you want one for the Christmas window, write and say so. No charge to inquire, and no sale is open on this page.
Prototype clocks
Sharp face photographs are still coming. Until they are set, this is a notice, not a listing.
Write to inquire.
Coffee cups and cards
In the C's line, still being dressed.
Write to inquire.
Shirts
Fly it, flew it, flown it.
Graphic tees from the I spy On a I and I spy a I marks, drawn from the Life After Lies merch set. A 9-piece run is being picked now.
Write to inquire, or to name a design you hope makes the 9.
Butt Weight: THERE'S ALWAYS MORE!
Contact
Write to Robin Graves
There is no password field and no payment form on this site. Write to the email address below.
For service inquiries, use the email address below and say what you need in plain words.
Write about the books, the Chamber Pot, a place on the calendar list, or the rest of the C's.
Say who you are and what you need. Robin will decide what happens next.
