Americana Stories

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"You were RED, and you liked me because I was BLUE" Cover by @acompletestranger

Long Story Short is a collection of short, short stories written for the 21st Century attention span. Featuring police chases and polish shops, romance gone wrong and romance gone right, sibling rivalry and sibling affection, human trafficking and alien abduction, revenge and reconciliation, fable and folklore, like a bag of pick 'n' mix, Long Story Short is something you'll want to dip into time and time again.

Part One of The Chronology Division series. Melissa Santiago, one of Interpol's most promising young officers, is given a near-impossible assignment: track down an unknown fugitive hiding in an unknown location. But it's not a matter of where to look, it's a matter of when. If you enjoy, please remember to vote! Thank you!

A man goes on a killing spree to save his daugther Ill be posting two chapters a week.

Wattys 2019 Poetry Winner | #1 Epic Poem January 2020 | #1 Epic Poem June 2019 | #1 Americana Nov 2019 & Feb 2021 | Meowza! #1 Animal Fiction Mar 2021 | #1 Animal Fiction August 2021 Seven cats live in Feline Society #337, along with Hooman #1 and Hooman #A. Together, they plan to save Earth from the lizardmen sent by the Babylonian Brotherhood of Proxima Centauri B...but they encounter failure, every time. #5 Conspiracy Theory Oct 18 | #6 Feline Oct 18 | #110 Illuminati Nov 18 | #210 Meow Dec 18 | The Queen Awards Participant The Alicia Awards Participant The Phoenix Awards Participant

On a stormy night along Highway 20, the Sandhills Café glows like a lone candle on the Nebraska prairie. Evie Harper has spent years watching travelers pass through-each one leaving behind a story she'll never quite live. When a road-worn musician named Cal wanders in out of the rain, he plays a quiet song about highways, missed chances, and the lives people almost choose. By morning, he's gone. But something small-and stubborn-remains.

Murders in the Brook.

Journey with a broke wanderer through the glamorous facade of Palm Springs, where the desert sun bakes both millionaire snowbirds and desperate locals alike. After an awkward encounter with a judgmental tourist named George who rails against California's "riff-raff," our narrator finds himself trapped in a hellish Starbucks line as temperatures soar and tempers flare. While wealthy tourists screech about the heat and sneer at street vendors, our guide peels back the glossy veneer of this "Playground of the Stars" to reveal the complicated reality beneath. As night falls and Palm Springs transforms into a glittering desert oasis, a chance encounter with a young local exposes the town's painful contradictions. In a place where vacation homes sit empty half the year and working people can't afford rent, what happens to a town that's become a monument to a vanished American past? With sharp wit and keen observation, this travelogue asks whether Palm Springs' nostalgic golden glow is slowly dimming as it clings to the ghosts of Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, and an America that no longer exists. After all, when you're broke in Paradise, there's always the desert.

Janet and Bob have sat in the same seats at the same bluegrass festival for the past 20 years. During the performance of their favorite musician, a living legend of bluegrass, a mysterious green woman is invited to stage to play an ominous instrument, prompting the ghost of the father of bluegrass to appear onstage and question the value of progress versus tradition.

Satire, I promise. Wherein Donald Trump falls in love with Joseph Stalin, and their love is utterly doomed. This takes place during the Cold War, Red Scare, Communist time period. Read this for your Cold War History test, I swear you'll pass. (I am too tired to live, but too caffeinated to die) BTW the cover IS ai. NOT MY ART ⚠️⚠️ (Much love goes out to artists, however, I am not one. And I had to compromise, sorry)

"Sweet girls don't survive the highway. They burn." 1967. Loretta Knox runs away from her dried-up Oklahoma town with twenty-three stolen dollars, a tube of lipstick, and a dream pulled straight from the back of a glossy magazine. She's seventeen, starving for fame, and headed west-toward the glittering lie of Hollywood. But the road is long and hungry. Gas stations whisper. Motels watch. Men offer rides with hands that linger too long. And what Loretta doesn't yet know is that beauty isn't power-it's bait. Each ride brings her closer to the sun-bleached rot of L.A., where the cameras flash, but the contracts cut deep. And behind the studio doors and velvet parties, something darker waits: a secret hidden inside a modeling empire, a trail of vanished girls, and a choice Loretta can't outrun. A sultry, slow-burn noir thriller about survival, seduction, and the cost of wanting to be seen. 🔞 Burnt Sugar contains mature themes, including sexual situations, emotional trauma, manipulation, and substance use. Recommended for readers 17+.

Charlie lives in the small town of Oak Hill, Tennessee. It's been a week since her husband, James died. She is distraught knowing she will have to continue the rest of her life without him. But she does find him again... just in a different dimension.

[2018 Wattys Shortlist] Aldo, a Denver assassin, must find a way to divert the Mormon expansion before they overtake the American Midwest, but a king consolidating power in the American heartland and a string of religiously motivated murders prove to only bolster chaos.

A girl, A bird, A story.

By Piper L.

They call him The Ghost. When something needs to cross state lines fast and clean, he's the one you hire. He finishes the job, erases the evidence, and moves on. This time is no different-except for what the job earns him. From a quiet stretch of West Texas to Southern California by morning, Ghost points his Torino west and runs through the night. The car starts to falter. The rumors catch up. And the body he's trusted for years begins to fail in ways speed can't outrun. This isn't a story about escape. It's about what it costs to keep moving. The Run is a lean, high-pressure road thriller about endurance, identity, and the moment a legend runs out of road.

Two parts: One was a dream I had in 2020, Another one meeting exactly the boy from that dream in 2021.