Midwest Stories

The inhabitants of a midwestern town play out their parts in the judicial system as defendants, defense attorneys, prosecutors and judges, by day. By night they live their lives as they inhabit their roles as residents of Twin Lakes County.

Before the tripods, Jaime Irvine was just trying to drop a second off her 200 IM. She woke at 5:00 AM. She ate pancakes her mother made. She sat next to Lauren Aguilar in the cafeteria and complained about taper madness. She tied her hair only for races and wore her glasses everywhere else. She had a state championship. A swim banquet where she held Lauren's hand under the table. Three arcade outings that felt like forever. One night between prelims and finals where she sang karaoke and almost felt invincible. That was 2025. Summer 2026: The aliens don't care about her personal best. Three legs. Heat rays. Red weed in the Mississippi. Jaime and Lauren have one advantage: Jaime knows how to hold her breath. The Last Flip Turn is not a hero story. It is a survivor story. It follows two teenage girls through the ordinary wreckage of junior year and into an extraordinary nightmare. There are no generals, no speeches, no last-minute rescue. Only a swimmer, her best friend, and the slow, terrible realization that the only thing keeping them alive is everything they already learned in the pool. Breathe. Flip. Push off. Repeat. Inspired by War of the Worlds (2005).

Let's say you're a criminology student who lives in the Midwest. Out of curiosity you try to get more information about your friends death. You accidentally end up falling into a rabbit hole and start your own investigation. Trying to solve this mystery you find out how much deeper this mess actually goes. So you just try to stop, multiple times but you still keep getting dragged in. Getting stalked and targeted by 4 murderers wasn't really your goal but oh well! Will you survive after finding out about the paranormal part of this situation or not? Will you accept the help from the "red frowny faced mask fucker" or not? Find out and read! (Slow burn! Self insert! Neutral-masc reader! No smut!) (don't recommend reading this under 16 years of age) (Also! Ik Hoodie & Masky are from marble hornets, I just rly like the mh x crp crossover. I also don't claim the other crp/mh character unless I say so & ticci Toby was created by kastoway.)

Tania lives at St. Louis, MO with her foster parents after being in and out of the system since she was born.

They wont know eachother for long, but the memory will last a lifetime.

Laney lives in her head, she hates everyone but her family and her best friend's, and her long-term crush Michael Waters. She ends up falling at a party and having her prince save her. Is this when she'll finally get her high school experience? What even is the high school experience, at this point she's watched enough movies to not actually know what that is. Drinking, love, education, trips around the world?? She's so unsure of everything that all of this seems so distant when its right in front of her. Literally in front of her, Micheal has something to tell her but can't seem to get the words out. Does he love her? Maybe he just needs to know where the bathroom is...read to find out.

*A sequel to The Palmer Pool* Vanessa Brooks, now a high-school senior, hopes to put her time-traveling days behind her, until an opportunity arises to return the favor of a fellow time-traveler stuck in the past. ****** As Vanessa Brooks begins her senior year of high school, she hopes that the routine of life as usual will distract her from her memories of Pete, the boy she fell for and left behind in 1953. Now painfully aware of the risks of traveling to the past, she considers her time-traveling days over, even though she still longs to reunite with Pete. But with Eric Anderson, the only person who knows the truth about where Vanessa disappeared to all summer, keeping an uncomfortably close watch on her, along with her suspicious family and friends, she knows the only place she'll ever see Pete again is in her vivid dreams. When Vanessa accidentally travels from a 1920s themed Halloween party at a local historic mansion to an eerily similar party in the actual 1920s, she reconnects with a fellow time-traveler who needs her help. Vanessa discovers her ability to affect time is even stronger than she thought, and so is her determination to fight for what- and who- she wants. Cover by @JELyrica Content Warning: this story contains alcohol and drug use, and references to near-drowning events, panic attacks and drug overdose.

A young academic, fresh off completing his studies at the Sorbonne, begins a new life teaching at a university in the American Midwest. He savors the peaceful, quiet academic life he's found, until a specter from his former life appears. Will he choose himself, his independence? Or will he remain "in the fold"?

Inspired by modern pop punk band The Wonder Years. Written and edited for a University of Central Florida poetry workshop.

A young man is in a futuristic western. When his parents are wrongfully killed, Josh goes out for vengeance, but will he find what he's looking for , or much more?

- Currently in severe editing mode. - In many ways, people are like crooked teeth. Flawed, misshaped or formed, different. Never perfect. In the lives of Will Turner, Aislyn Kennedy, and Natalie Rivers, these flaws are shown with each layer that's peeled away and each wall that's broken down, slowly revealing each and every dark secret they have. But with secrets, fear builds. And with fear building, how can these three live their lives knowing that any slip up could possibly mean social suicide? Collaborative project by @AFatalReality and @sailbones

That's it.

Growing up in a small town in the Midwest, Thomas didn't have much to take up his time. Which is why his mothers part-time job at a Video Rental Store was the perfect opportunity for him to get addicted to horror movies. He found himself drawn to the classics, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, and Frankenstein, however, one specific movie caught his attention the most-Dracula. Thus began an early life obsession with vampires. He consumed all the vampire media he could find in his small Rental Store eventually leading to a fateful encounter with a young girl named Eleanor. He didn't know it at the time, but that encounter would change his life forever. Join Thomas as he figures out what it truly means to be in a love bound by fate.

Continuation of It's Not You (on Amazon), Book 2.

i'm tired of begging you to stay

First story in the 2018 series about millennials