Ozarks Stories

30 Stories

A Normal Heart in the Queen City  by michaelcoffelt
A Normal Heart in the Queen City by Mike Coffelt
In the fall of 1989, Missouri State University put on a production of A Normal Heart, a play that discussed homosexuality and Aids. Springfield state representative Jean...
Sherwood Forest  by michaelcoffelt
Sherwood Forest by Mike Coffelt
We moved to Sherwood Forest in the summer of 1980, just as I was going into the seventh grade. The first friend I would make would be a girl named Candy. I have been in...
Cabin Life.  Chapter One. Introducing the reader to Carl Johnson 'of course' by josephbrianmingus
Cabin Life. Chapter One. Introduc...by josephbrianmingus
Cabin Life travels through cabins I have inhabited from New Mexico to Maine, from the Missouri Ozarks to Colorado and Arizona. It is merely a memoir, and of an unimporta...
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Images by manxblue
Imagesby Joey Sharp
stories, essays, and scripts with care, Joey
Heat Wave by AliFayeFaye
Heat Waveby AliFayeFaye
Ochako goes down south with her dad for a construction job. With what she thinks is going to be a summer full of boring work and no play changes once she meets a group o...
The Colorado Wendigo by AOW_117
The Colorado Wendigoby 卂ㄖ山
A Young Man encounters a wendigo during a camping trip and it begins to follow him
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LAKESIDE  by 60sloop
LAKESIDE by 60sloop
When a woman flees to police explaining she, along with a captive, escaped her murderous husband, an investigation and media frenzy unveils the secrets of a Missouri man...
Mart's Gambit 7 by ritewriter
Mart's Gambit 7by ritewriter
Ozark's Marty gets mixed up with a bad person
Growing Up Kitty by Rivenfae
Growing Up Kittyby Rivenfae
The continuation of my stories from my shifter world the second offering in my series "Not Just Humans" Is the story of Greg the shifter familiar in his teena...
Not A Mate by Rivenfae
Not A Mateby Rivenfae
This is not your standard 'shifter' story, welcome to a Earth a little to the left of us where shifters are a part of normal society as well as other 'creatures'. Human...
Shadow and Stars by eternalfelicity
Shadow and Starsby felicity vaughn
THIS STORY WILL BECOME FREE ON OCTOBER 9, 2023! |2021 + 2022 WATTY'S SHORTLIST| Face your dark side before it comes looking for you. When Camryn Young's boyfriend insis...
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The Ozark Howler and the Search for the Snawfus by TheOzarkHowler
The Ozark Howler and the Search fo...by The Ozark Howler
A group of people cross over the edge of their ordinary lives and find themselves in the remote woods of the Ozarks, where they encounter strange creatures of light and...
The Booger of Swindle Creek by DMYoungAuthor
The Booger of Swindle Creekby Diana Young
Something unnatural lurks in the dark, mountain forest. After a day of drinking with the boys in a remote area of the Arkansas Ozarks, Clyde James finds himself alone an...
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Charity Joy (He Calls Me by Name - Book 3): Chapter One by michaelwinstell
Charity Joy (He Calls Me by Name...by Michael Winstell
THE JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH. Charity Joy Li lives a quiet life in a small lakeside town deep in the Missouri Ozarks. She knows that practicing dressage with her...
The House in Butterfly Forest by HollyDolly2018
The House in Butterfly Forestby Amber C.
A story about a victorian coupple and their House long afffter their passing last of MY early works written about 2006 Not finished
A Prairie Hallow Halloween by HollyDolly2018
A Prairie Hallow Halloweenby Amber C.
A Poem about a Haunted Cemetery. Based on Prairie Hallow Cemetery just outside of my grandfathers home town of Mansfield Missouri.
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Investigation by JWCartwright
Investigationby JWCartwright
Devon Wallace, detective, stared at the dead man. There was something unusual about it; something... unnatural. This is a companion story to the Mary Phan series, set in...
What I Did on My Summer Vacation, by Mary (1) by JWCartwright
What I Did on My Summer Vacation...by JWCartwright
'I have this friend, right? She saw something. Something really bad. A crime. They saw somebody commit a crime. They think they should go to the police. But my friend's...
When I Contemplated Suicide, by Mary (2) by JWCartwright
When I Contemplated Suicide, by Ma...by JWCartwright
Mary has just witnessed something horrible. Something she could never begin to cope with; something that she caused, or perhaps committed...