Appalachia Stories

Blair is sixteen and lives in a small, remote town tucked deep in the Appalachian Mountains, where everyone knows each other and nothing ever really feels new. She has a close-knit group of friends, and they all go to the town's only school. Outside of class, they spend most of their time together-swimming in the creek, watching movies at each other's houses, and wandering the woods and backroads with nothing much else to do. Blair lives with her parents in a house that sits on a quiet stretch of land, with a smaller home just off to the side where her grandparents live. She has three siblings: an older brother two years ahead of her, an older sister just a year older, and a younger brother who is three years younger. The house is always a little too full and a little too loud, but it's the kind of place everyone comes back to eventually.

My cracked K-Mart wristwatch read 1:18 am. Eleven-year-old Andy McKee had learned to survive his mama's neglect. Stay small, stay quiet, stay awake... and "Do not let Mrs. Kennedy catch you on them stairs, you hear me?" But when a vicious attack leaves him broken and alone, the world swoops in to save him. Sent him off to the damn Grimm Road to live with the Cooper's. A family with more than enough trouble of their own. To a road where only the dead and dying belong. Then Auntie Ree offers him the world. Everything a boy could want: A mother's love. Safety. Belonging. No longer the no-account bastard from the wrong end of town. And all he has to do? Sign his name in her book. In this Southern Gothic tale, Andy must navigate the bargains of a small town trapped in the clutches of one sharp ol' coffee shop owner, and discover that some prices are paid by the people you love.

♫ She was a girl, he was a crow, can I make it any more obvious ♫ Deep in the woods of Appalachia, the creatures of folklore make their nests. Only, sometimes those creatures step out from the shadowed canopies of their homes in search of something mortal, something... human. Cassy Williams, an unsuspecting cashier worker, finds herself bound in a pact with one of these creatures more complicated than the simple barters she's used to with her murder of crows. It will be a long and winding road for her to untangle the deal she's wrought, but will she even find that it's worth it?

Liz-Beth Perry is a redneck youth with a mental disability that no one around her understands. She's a stand up comedian out of town, and in town, she's a mechanic with her father.

A deadly heat wave coupled with a power outage in a rural Appalachian town leads to a series of tragic deaths; an HVAC repairman must get to the safety of his home with an old woman whom he has kidnapped. Also, there's a deadly wildfire. Also, God has forsaken him.

Sadie McDaniel is a 12 year old girl who lives in the small mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. She experiences a tragic loss early in her childhood, and she is raised by her mother, Charlene, and her grandmother, Eliza. Eliza is no ordinary grandmother. Throughout her life, Eliza has utilized the forest and the Appalachian Mountains to provide her with what she needs. Her bond with her granddaughter continually grows as she shows Sadie the way of "Granny Magic" and utilizing the tricks and traditions that have been in their family for generations.

After her parents' death, Niya becomes a recluse from society. Her best friend, Rebecca, takes her backpacking in the Carolina Appalachian Mountains, hoping to lift her spirits, but they instead discover the impending death of an old friend. Can Niya face the creature that has come to collect his soul and save his life?

The Appalachians are known to house many things, some of them real, and some of them hearsay. -This is an anthology story that follows ten different characters, each of them representing different eras.- ꒷︶꒷꒥꒷︶˚.꒷꒥꒷︶꒷꒷︶꒷꒥꒷︶˚.꒷꒥꒷︶꒷꒷︶꒷꒥꒷︶˚.꒷꒥꒷︶꒷꒷︶꒷꒥꒷︶˚.꒷꒥꒷︶꒷ Something is Wrong with My Hands: 1600s There was More of Me Yesterday: 1920s I Found A Second pulse: 1940s The Shape of Dread: 1960s Meat That Thinks: 1980s My Mind Has Teeth: 1990s Poacher's Pride: 2000s This Skin is Not Mine: 2010s Choices: 2020s Something is Wrong with the Sky: 2080s

As soon as Willow Evans turned eighteen, she left her small town in West Virginia to pursue her dreams of becoming a chef in New York City. Now, several years later, she's doing the one thing she swore she'd never do: She's coming home. She's still fairly certain she'll return to the city, until she meets local repairman, Sam. Now she'll have to decide if her heart truly lies in New York, or if her home in Appalachia has managed to steal a small part of it. ******* DISCLAIMER This is my first draft. meaning, I will not be editing anything until i am finished. Critiques are always welcome!

cynthia grew up her whole life in appalachia surrounded by ghosts. she could never see them, but she felt them. fear of the supernatural goes out of the window when you're surrounded by it for so long. but soon, things will start to take a turn when "the thing" emerges. after the terrorization of her whole family by this entity, cynthia decided to take action. (the beginning is rocky but it's going to get good i promise! i have big ideas for this story)

The story of Appalachia

Disgraced Prince Gavin has one shot at redemption -- murdering an innocent girl. For payback. For revenge. For forgiveness. The reasons abound, but the mission remains the same. The blood of his kidnapped sister weighs heavy on the kingdom and, as the tragedy that befell her was the fault of Gavin, it's up to him to make it right. Told from the perspective of Gavin (aka Wren, his covert name) and the other members of his crew - an Academy graduate with something to prove, a sharpshooter with a broken voice, an assassin with a growing conscience - this novel mixes the intrigue of The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Count of Monte Cristo with a new twist on the Prince Charming tale.

Another weed and Pentecostal tale. Wonder what's worse than snake handlers?

By Amanitalis Beyond the Living When a young man's childhood friend vanishes without a trace, the only clue left behind is a diary filled with strange entries-entries about a girl no one's ever seen and walks that blur the line between night and nightmare. Driven by obsession, the reader follows the trail to an abandoned graveyard deep in the Appalachian woods, where time slips, reality thins... and the river never forgets. Some people leave. Others never really do.

Hassel used to think that being plucked from his life in the city to live in a cramped, rundown farmhouse in the Appalachian mountains was the worst thing that ever happened to him but when his younger brother, Sloan, goes missing in the wilderness surrounding the property he soon learns that there are worse nightmares to endure. Hassel decides that the only way he'll ever be able to move on is if he faces those very same dark, wicked, woods that swallowed his brother up and never let him go. Gathering a couple of trusted friends, he embarks on a hiking trip to set up a memorial for Sloan so that he may finally be free and lay the past to rest. Only, the hiking trip does not go as planned. You see, there are a certain set of rules that you should follow when trekking through Appalachia. Rules to keep you safe, to keep you alive, to keep you from being hunted by the unimaginable horrors that stalk through the brush and treetops. Unfortunately for Hassel and his friends, they wind up breaking every rule and realizing why they were established in the first place.

When Dagmara loses her magic, the Endless Wood turns hostile. Hunted by a magician and burdened with two lost Appalachian boys, she must reach the human world before her pursuers or the forest kill her first. (aka: a fantasy romance enemies-to-lovers in a wood of horrors)

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.....

"Willa..." "It's okay, I am okay." "Willa, I'm sorry." Kudzu vines stretched and sprawled across dilapidated wood slats on the back porch that splintered beneath the weight of themselves. A rich, warm breeze caressed my face almost as gently as the feeling of the pad of her thumb that grazed my cheek. The sun fought to hang between fluffy white clouds, where the god I thought I knew lived. The soft grass beneath my fingers tickled the center of my palm and the leaves on the trees twisted and turned together so intricately I couldn't tell where one branch ended, and the other branch began. Those leaves seemed as though they were pressing against the sky, creating a pattern against the canvas of pastel blues, periwinkle grays, whites, and sunflower yellows. Willa and Halcyon guide each other through trials of love, friendship, trust, and growth in this coming of age YA novel based in the Appalachias. **this story does touch on themes of mental illness**

"Briery Knob" is the story of a double murder in the backwaters of West Virginia, a town which closed ranks around the slayer and a serial killer who hatched a plan to get the real perpetrator freed and pocket $2 million of West Virginia's money. Nineteen-year old Nancy Santomero and twenty-six-year old Vicki Durian were two "hippie chicks" who hitchhiked to West Virginia's Monongahela National Park in southeast West Virginia for a gathering of the "Rainbow Family." Picked up by strangers in a white van, the two were given marijuana and alcohol. When they found out they were expected to 'pay for' the moonshine and pot with sex, they refused and were killed. White supremacist and serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed in 2013. In the months before he died, Franklin carried out a scheme which would see the exoneration of the killer and a payoff of $2 million of the state's money. This story will bring to mind, for most readers, noted author, John Gresham. There is a significant difference between "Briery Knob" and almost all of Gresham's work. "Briery Knob" is true.