Ruralnoir Stories

When Detective Evie Hall is sent to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl, she finds herself in Deadbush, an isolated outback town with a population of 28 and a silence that stretches for miles. The locals are too polite. Their smiles linger too long. And in the center of town, a dead bush grows from a circle of stone... its roots fed by something long buried. As Evie digs deeper, she uncovers a chilling tradition, a forgotten book, and a town that welcomes strangers, but never lets them leave.

Lock the Shop Tonight After the death of his mother-in-law, Eleanor, Michael returns to the family farm to settle affairs and help preserve the legacy she left behind. What he doesn't expect are the messages. Eleanor spent her life filling notebooks with grocery lists, dreams, weather observations, and warnings she couldn't explain. Born in 1941, she wrote everything down. Every thought. Every feeling. Every strange sense that something wasn't right. Days after her funeral, new messages begin appearing among her notebooks. Lock the shop tonight. At first, Michael dismisses them as grief and coincidence. Then the warnings start coming true. A broken window. An unlocked door. Footprints in the darkness. A stranger asking questions. As he digs deeper into Eleanor's journals, Michael discovers she may have documented decades of impossible predictions-and someone else knows it. Now, hidden within the notebooks may be a secret worth killing for. On an isolated farm where every warning arrives just in time, Michael must decide whether to trust the messages of a woman who died... or risk becoming the next tragedy she foresaw. A supernatural thriller about family, intuition, grief, and the messages that refuse to stay buried.