Appalachia Stories

A new teacher joins a small school in the Appalachians of West Virginia, but his skin doesn't seem to fit right...Can the teens figure out what's what's changing ,and why everyone is starting to act...wrong?..

After three years away, eighteen-year-old senior Cora Boone is finally free and returning to her hometown of Stilllight, deep in Southern Appalachia. Her record runs a mile long, stacked with detentions, suspensions, arrests, and every bad decision she could make before she was incarcerated. But in all that chaos, she left behind the one boy who understood her. While Cora was locked away in the Marrowbend Institute, fellow senior Hollis Greer was quietly diagnosed with a rare seizure disorder. Hollis only told those he needed to. He learned to hide it, paying close attention to his body and keeping a careful hold on what no one else was meant to see. Nothing threatens that careful balance like Cora Boone walking back into Stilllight. When Hollis's iron grip on his own body breaks, the violent fallout threatens to lock him inside the very nightmare Cora just escaped.

Hollis is committed to the shadowed halls of the Marrowbend Institute. But he quickly realizes that the institution is more than just a cage. The Boonies, a cult of Cora Boone's followers, operate within the walls of the teenage asylum. Ready and willing to perform tasks set before them by Cora herself, even if it means great personal harm. Her three-year confinement left a dark legacy within these walls, forcing Hollis to confront a version of her he never knew existed, and allowing him to see the power she truly holds over others. He must form alliances with other patients to survive, while combating new and dangerous rivalries. On the outside, Cora's relentless pursuit to expose the police cover-up regarding her parents' deaths has earned her a formidable new enemy in Officer Bradwell. With the law weaponized against her, Cora fights to make the truth known before the town buries her along with its secrets. Unfortunately for Cora, the law and the Headmaster of Marrowbend, Abel Trenner, push back, threatening to make Hollis disappear forever.

In a coal town haunted by rolling blackouts, Abner Hensley knows better than to miss Tamsin "Sunstep" Crowder. She was once his closest friend, the girl who made every broken street and dim porch light feel a little less lonely. Then high school changed everything. Popularity found Sunstep, and she took it, leaving Abner behind with only memories of the girl she used to be. Now, senior year is almost over, and the distance between them feels impossible to cross. Apologizing isn't easy, and the real reason Sunstep walked away is tangled in feelings she has never been brave enough to name. Abner wants to hate her, but every blackout, passing glance, and old memory pulls him back toward the girl who hurt him most. In a town where nothing seems to change, Abner and Sunstep may still have one chance to become something new. After all, some sparks only return when two people are willing to step into the dark together. ~~~ What Still Burns is a clean and wholesome teen romance that takes place in a small Appalachian town.

When 19 year old Laurie Trudeau opened her door at 3 one morning, what she saw lead to discovering long forgotten things that should have remained that way. But everyone holds their secrets.....

"i still taste blood on my tongue when i think of their names, the way their hands ravaged you, your body, your very soul. they left scars that will always bleed, no matter how many bandaids i put over them." x x x a dark poetry collection containing themes of suicide, depression, child abuse, sexual assault, and other general trauma + mental illness. please read with discretion & respect for these stories.

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A town located within the deep Appalachians, lies on the edge of something that cannot be explained an anomaly like none other, sitting on the cusp of understanding and the threshold of knowledge.

A healing story of a newly-divorced woman and her children exploring the woods.

A quaint collection of the trials and tribulations of a group of social misfits in the fictional town of Tanager, West Virginia.

"Even after all those years wasted, I still think of her. Maybe too often. Perhaps one more time, one more story, will leave my soul to rest." 'WHAT WE FORGOT' wip//updates biweekly//support on ko-fi to beta read!

A young hunter is on a mission that will lead him to a life greater than his current one.

In a small Appalachian town, there is a glaring mystery. In a life conditioned to accept this putrid, ever-growing concrete tower, local residents no longer bat an eye. Inside this tower, the outside world remains a mystery, even so close to it. But as all things do over time, this deteriorates.

As long as Lillit could remember things had called to her: ancient manuscripts, forgotten artifacts and even things that are better left forgotten. It was almost as if the world was full of webs pulling her closer towards questions she dared not ask. Growing up in a remote town perched atop the Appalachian Mountains there were many questions Lillit was never allowed to ask. What had happened to her mother? What was her father preparing her for? And why did the trees whisper to her on those dark winter nights? To answer these questions she must discover what lies at the heart of those mountains. Rising smoothly from the earth, worn down over millennia, their rolling snow covered peaks glowed in the starlight. Here a new queen's throne would be carved. One which will topple all the old kingdoms.

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A story of a man, beaten and chained, and his journey throughout the world alongside his Challenger buddies

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After encountering an otherworldly woman at the supermarket and finding a flyer on her windshield that smells of cinnamon and cloves, a bored suburban wife decides to embark on what she imagines will be a much-needed, quaint adventure to an old farmhouse, even if it means leaving her husband alone on Thanksgiving and opening herself up to an escape she could never have imagined.

When tyranny arrives in Lick-Split Kentucky it is up to the Elder Gentlemen Social Club to act against it!