Southern-gothic Stories

About a strange girl, called Evening and the very strange yet ordinary happenings around her.

Helena Du Mort just wants the simple life, to be left alone and no longer criticized and ridiculed by the people of the town she lives in. With her weakened and deteriorating mental state finally getting the better of her she hits her breaking point and with it comes something far more sinister.

When a prank in the woods turns deadly, five teens must face both what's hiding in the dark, and within themselves. New girl Clover Portis just wants to fit in. So when four classmates invite her on a late-night snipe hunt, she says yes. But then the hoax goes horribly wrong. Something ancient and hungry wakes in the woods that night. It's been waiting for them. Trapped deep in Karma Creek Woods, Clover and her classmates must rely on each other to survive. But as secrets unravel, Clover realizes the scariest monsters aren't always the ones with claws. Southern folklore meets survival horror in this chilling tale of friendship, fear, and courage in the dark. For fans of Stranger Things, Hatchet, and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to good kids. Ten years ago on a hot July night, four children's lives were pulled apart after they went missing for 48 hours in Mirkwood Forest. Now, they're being pulled back together after their savior, a local history teacher known as Cedric LeCruz, is found dead in that same forest. Charlie Braverman, one of the four children, now a nineteen-year-old, has been reluctant to come back to her hometown Glome's Valley. She carefully created a new life at her state college as a seemingly average girl. Despite her desires, she realizes her past is unwilling to let her go. Her life begins to unravel as her estranged ex-almost-boyfriend goes missing and her mother's new mysterious deputy becomes the key to helping Charlie understand what happened in Mirkwood a decade ago, and what is happening in Mirkwood now. But everything is not as it seems in tiny Glome's Valley, and everyone, even Charlie, even the deputy, have secrets of their own.

Trouble brews in a small Southern town in this Gothic tale. Can an egg-laying Penguin bring these survivors of a global catastrophe together, or drive them apart for good? 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' fanfic.