Истории Appalachian

Missy Shell-Wataru is an eighteen-year-old Appalachian witch, Pokémon Trainer, rodeo champion, and proud wife of Indigo Champion Lance Wataru. She has no desire to inherit his job. Unfortunately, after defeating three Elite Four members, Missy realizes that beating Lance would make her Champion-and saddle her with his paperwork. So she convinces her Pokémon to throw the match. Lance catches her immediately. Soon, Missy is dragging Lorelei to Walmart for caffeine, snacks, fishing gear, hunting supplies, pajamas, emergency Budweiser, and NEWT supplies. Then Ilvermorny is invited to Hogwarts as the fourth Triwizard Tournament school. Missy arrives with Jessica, two Rapidash, spinning lassos, rodeo stunts, Daisy Dukes, cowboy boots, American pride, and country music blasting through the Great Hall. With Lance watching through a live Pokégear connection, Missy turns an international magical event into a Kentucky rodeo-and notices how much he enjoys the view. Lorelei can read lips. What follows is a war of Pokémon innuendos, falling Elite Four members, blue Poké Balls, suspicious references to Arbok, Onix, Steelix, Dragon Dance, cold showers, and one increasingly miserable Champion everyone keeps pitying. The Triwizard Tournament hasn't even started. Europe is already doomed.

Magnolia McKinnon-Black-Wataru is eighteen, a seventh-year Gryffindor, daughter of Sirius Black and Marlene McKinnon, an established Pokémon Trainer-and the Kentucky-raised wife of Indigo Champion Lance. Maggie is flannel, camouflage, hunting, fishing, frog gigging, UK sports, NASCAR, Derby Day, St. Louis Blues hockey, cookouts, fireworks, Walmart hauls, and enough Appalachian pride to frighten an entire Ministry meeting. The one expensive thing she owns? A magically expanded Louis Vuitton bag Lorelei talked her into buying. Then one innocent Hogwarts shopping trip goes catastrophically Gryffindor. Maggie challenges the Elite Four. She beats three. She reaches Lance. She starts winning. And then Maggie remembers what happens if she becomes Champion. Meetings. Politics. Public appearances. And- paperwork. Cue an emergency prayer to sweet baby Jesus, deliberately terrible battle decisions, emergency moonshine, a celebratory Budweiser, and an increasingly horrified Lance demanding to know why his extremely talented wife just threw a Championship match. Maggie's answer is simple: She's got NEWTs, deer season, fishing, frog gigging, March Madness, NASCAR, the Kentucky Derby, hockey, Memorial Day cookouts, Fourth of July fireworks, and an entire backwoods Kentucky life to enjoy. That Champion workload is suicide to happiness. Lance can keep that shit. Go Cats.

Five young filmmakers climb the Appalachian Mountains to shoot a horror documentary but the horror they find isn't part of the script. When the fog rolls in, the crew discovers an abandoned cabin said to be cursed, anyone who opens a door or window after nightfall is never seen again. Lena, the quiet dreamer behind the camera, feels something ancient watching her. The locals call it The Hollow a place that doesn't kill, it keeps. Now trapped in the mountain's mist with only Evan, the calm leader she secretly loves, Lena must face the truth. The Hollow isn't haunting her. It's calling her home. - Genre: Horror Subgenres: Paranormal • Mystery • Supernatural • Dark Romance

#992 youngadult - 2.5.19 #166 nature - 2.8.19 #439 survival - 2.8.19 #39 bookworm - 2.20.19 #33 stepfather - 2.20.19 #397 female - 2.20.19 #521 teenager - 2.20.19 #231 dog - 2.20.19 #106 singleparent - 2.20.19 #63 stepdad - 2.20.19 #23 virginia - 2.20.19 #30 mountains - 2.20.19 #410 femaleprotagonist - 2.20.19 #33 strongfemale - 2.20.19 #65 freshman - 2.20.19 #49 singlemom - 2.20.19 #33 noromance - 2.20.19 #1 appalachia - 2.22.19 #2 appalachian - 2.22.19 100 reads - 2.16.19 River is a freshman in high school in the mountainous region of Virginia who has a deep connection to nature. In school, she is a wallflower. She has few friends despite being a quite likable person. Her best friend is her malamute, Tucker. Almost daily after school River goes to "her world;" an area deep in the forest that no one else visits. There she studies, reads, or just disconnects for awhile. There, away from society, she can be herself. She doesn't have to try to blend in to the crowd when there is no crowd to blend in to. Life is great for River until her mother starts dating a logger who sees no value in the preservation of nature. Upset and frustrated, River takes Tucker and runs away to her world in the dead of night hoping he will not find her beautiful grove and destroy it.

When Juniper Wallis returns to the small Appalachian town of Fayetteville after her aunt's mysterious disappearance, she expects grief and confusion. What she doesn't expect are the cryptic symbols etched into her family's café walls. As Junie tries to piece together what really happened, she forms an unexpected bond with Silas, a gentle but guarded local who seems to understand the kind of loneliness she's been carrying. Together, they chase truth through small-town whispers, long-forgotten letters, and the eerie silence that settles when the world feels like it's holding its breath. Yet, some silences are meant to be broken. When Junie finally listens closely enough, what she hears will change everything.

In "The Accursed," Ruby Jackson weaves a chilling tale where the shadows of the past entwine with the horrors of the present. Set against a backdrop of historical intrigue, this short story unravels the dark secrets of a cursed lineage, plunging its characters into a relentless spiral of fear, betrayal, and supernatural terror. As ancient evils rise and stakes escalate, will anyone emerge unscathed from the horrors that haunt them?

Tania is a wife and soon to be a mother. That is, if she can keep the doctor from stealing her babies. Everybody tells her she's just being an overprotective mother but, there's something wrong with that man. She just knows it. It's not just the way he sneers at her, not just that at all. There's just something, well, sinister about him and she's afraid of him. Now she just has to prove it, before it's too late.

I lived a life up in the mountains. It was right above the place on which Andy Griffth Show town was based - I guess the mountain people on the show were based on us. Everything is perfect. ?! How can I live without those people who like roots cling to a poisoned mountain - a mountain that refuses to complain? Did anything bad ever happen there? What is happening to people up there - Not Much is what is said - but I feel like it is Not Much that life has to offer them. Where is Florida? I haven't found it yet and I'm living here.

A genderqueer hillbilly and a haunted woman must break a generational curse that has entwined their lives in the abandoned coal-stripped mountains of the Pennsylvania Wilds. *** Desperate to flee a dark past, Finley drives off a cliff and prays to the ancient hemlocks below to catch her fall. But in the abandoned hollows of the Pennsylvania Wilds, everything comes at a price. Tasked by an undead Not-Deer, Finley must find the three talismans that mark the mountain's boundaries in order to break a century old curse, one that has not only haunted the women in her family for generations, but has also bound the supernatural beings to the mountain, including the dead. Fortunately, the handsome genderqueer hillbilly up the road, River Hawthorne, is just as eager [maybe too eager] to break the curse. Together, they navigate the woods where hungry trees walk and other demonic haunts roam, growing closer every moment. But breaking the curse also comes at a price and Finley must decide what freedom is worth when her past comes crawling back through the woods to haunt her. HEARTWOOD blends gothic folk horror with cabincore sapphic romance. Rated Mature for violence, gore, sex, language Content Warnings: body horror, alcohol/drug use, transphobic attack, animal death/hunting, DV/abusive relationships, generational trauma, mentions of suicide & infant death Rankings: 1 in #appalachia 1 in #folkhorror 1 in #transmasc 5 in #gothicromance 8 in #sapphic

"Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride straight to the devil." Those were the last words Cuzzin Jimbo said to me before I climbed into Frankenstein, my first vehicle, and embarked on the ride of my life.

When Lucy discovers her superpower is to bring bad luck, she sets out to find some justice.

What started out as a year long hiking challenge in Sept 2014, turned into a journey through life, loss, and learning. AS Cameron tells his story of the Sept 2014 - Sept 2015 Dirty Dozen Wilderness challenge in which he had to hike at least 10 miles in 12 different designated wilderness areas. Through story, he tells of the types of hikes he did from simple out and back day hikes to multi-day backpack trips - what gear was used, the technical challenges along with the trials of life during a year of tragic losses and how hiking helped him survive it.

Ruth Calloway took 412 photographs the day she found the house. When she uploaded them that night there were 413. The extra photograph showed the interior of a room she had never entered. She was standing in it. Ruth is a land surveyor. Twenty-two years of experience. The most methodical, precise, empirically-minded person I have ever spoken to. She is not someone who imagines things. She is not someone who frightens easily. She is not someone who calls strangers at eleven PM on a Tuesday to tell them what happened to her that day. She called me anyway. Because the house she found on a disputed parcel in Harlan County, Kentucky does not appear on any map. Any satellite image. Any county record going back to 1819. Because it casts no shadow despite being fully lit by afternoon sun. Because in the 1887 field notes of the last surveyor to document that parcel - a man who died four months after his survey at age fifty-one - a margin notation reads: "Do not go inside. I do not know why I know this. I simply know it." Ruth is fifty-one years old. She surveyed that parcel in February. She did not go inside. She is in the photograph anyway. And when she looked at the reflection in the wavy old glass of the window she was standing at - She saw what was in the doorway behind her. In a room she never entered. In a house that should not exist. ⚠️ Part of the ColdPresence universe. Set in Harlan County, Kentucky - the same county as The Whitmore Mansion. Can be read as a standalone story. Full narration on YouTube - ColdPresence. Link in profile. Don't look directly at things. Look from the side.

As an avid hiker and 4th-grade teacher, I decided to write a book about my section hikes of the Appalachian Trail (AT). Working at a year-round school, I get the benefit of longer breaks. I.E. 2-week spring break and 2-week fall break with 6 weeks for summer. Perfect for completing sections of the AT.

Somebody Else Was in Control

In the misty mountains of Boone, North Carolina, where neon diners hum alongside ancient shrines, 19-year-old Aaron Katsuo clings to his late father's rusted 1967 Shelby GT500-a beast of steel haunted by memories of war, J-rock mixtapes, and unspoken goodbyes. Struggling through grief and a gap year of isolation, Aaron clashes with brash sophomore Yumeko Majima, whose own hidden scars from her brother's suicide fuel a passion for dragon-etched designs. As they restore the car amid wildflower fields and Blue Ridge drives, a chosen family emerges from the auto shop shadows: a guilt-ridden mother, a gruff veteran mentor, and friends chasing melodies and legacies. But can Aaron rev past his father's ghost to forge his own path, or will the weight of loss stall them all? Steel & Petals is a heartfelt coming-of-age tale of healing, identity, and the roads that bind us-where Southern soul meets Japanese spirit in a symphony of engines and echoes.

Mountain poetry. Memoirs

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?