Southerngothic Stories

She wasn't his bride-she was his battery. Sold to the aristocratic Boudreaux family as a child, Kimbra Woods spent eleven years bound by a parasitic blood ritual. Her life force was quietly harvested to tether Damian-The Crimon Root's comatose heir-to the living world, feeding an ancient entity consuming them both. On the night of the final ceremony meant to seal her as a permanent vessel for life, Kimbra does the unthinkable: she breaks the contract and burns her chains to the ground. Her escape leads her to Our Lady of Tears Academy-a salt-and-stone fortress in New Orleans where "Exceptions" are forged into spiritual weapons. Against the abyss stands Roman De La Croix, a penitent upperclassman sworn to act as her Shield against demonic interference. But the Boudreaux Empire does not lose its property, and Damian has finally stepped into his Legacy... ⚠️ NOTE TO READERS: This Wattpad entry contains an exclusive 3-chapter preview of The Reform School for Witches: The Blood Lily Contract. 📖 READ THE FULL NOVEL: Available now on Amazon in Paperback & Kindle / Kindle Unlimited! 🏛️ INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE: What is your classification at Our Lady of Tears Academy? Take the official 5-question Diocesan Placement Exam and join the community Discord: 🩸 rsfwseries.com

A premature summer growing too fast. Shoes sticky with blood. Broken bodies on the concrete. When Jolene Foster goes missing, everyone believes her life is over. But maybe there's more to the road than they think, maybe there's a future in escaping. From Saratoga Springs, NY to Oletha, TX, an unexpected friendship forms between an overly disciplined girl and a guilt-ridden boy from the Bible-Belt. Where paths meet and hot dust swirls, life begins again. Sometimes, at least, that's what happens.

Harm Gaskell sees a woman and a small boy in her washbasin. Is it a warning or a sign. The young one eyed seer. Doesn't know. But she'll need to figure it our and save or stop the woman in the basin from making a choice that'll change not only Banjo Creek but the entire world. Can this isolated, odd child...do what she must, or will forces equal to her own stand in her way.

Gavi e Lucas estão muito mais próximos do que a primeira parte, agora vai ter mais fama menos privacidade, e consequências de cada personagem na história, essa é a última parte pra encerrar essa fanfic.

" - THE GRIEF AND MY BODY; grief, my body. the grief or my body, and it is the grief every time. autumn keeps her hand around my throat all summer long. she knows you had the only name i wanted to say and she gets tired of seeing me cry but never of telling the story. and i am saying your name every day i am swallowing the sun whenever it tries to come here and it is always winter even when it's not. " ••• in which a century and a half after her brutal murder, a dead woman opens her eyes again - only to find that the husband she left behind has become a stranger, and the dead have followed her home.

The story is set in Gardenplain, Kansas in the year 1993. Following Wyatt graves and his family while also focusing on the disappearance of multiple teenage girls in the community. The story goes into depth about Wyatt's relationship with his family members and how his family functions despite all going through their own unique trauma.

Elias Bell thought he had left Saint Mercy, Georgia, behind. For years, he has tried to forget the small Southern town where he was raised by his grandmother, Rosetta "Mama Rose" Bell. But when Mama Rose dies unexpectedly, Elias is forced to return to the old Bell House-and to a past he spent years running from. Saint Mercy has changed. There are flowers growing where they shouldn't. The Blackwater River seems to whisper names after dark. People speak of loved ones they can't quite remember. And deep within Briarwood, something ancient has begun to stir. Then Elias discovers that the strange stories Mama Rose told him as a child weren't stories at all. They were warnings. Elias possesses a rare ability known as the Remembering, allowing him to experience memories hidden within people, objects, and the land itself. Through it, he begins uncovering the truth behind a decades-old tragedy known as the Great Forgetting-an event that nearly destroyed Saint Mercy and was erased from the memories of everyone who survived it. Everyone except Mama Rose. And something else. An ancient being known as the Gardener has spent generations collecting the memories humanity has abandoned, cultivating them into a supernatural garden of flowers. He believes pain is a disease and forgetting is the cure. But Elias's return threatens everything he has built. With the mysterious Mother Bloom guiding him through a world hidden beneath the familiar Southern landscape, Elias must uncover what happened to Saint Mercy, why his grandmother made a terrible bargain with the Gardener, and what became of the people the town chose to forget. Because some memories were buried for a reason. Some stories were never meant to be told. And some things- refuse to stay forgotten.

In the humid heart of Charleston, where old money hides behind iron gates, and every wedding is a performance of legacy, Octavia Dupree has built a reputation for perfection. As the owner of The Vow & Veil, she creates the South's most coveted weddings, transforming historic estates into unforgettable celebrations. Though she believes in the vows she helps others make, past heartbreak has taught her to keep love at arm's length, choosing professionalism over vulnerability. Sullivan Carrington, heir to one of Charleston's most influential shipping families, has spent his life fulfilling expectations. His engagement to Greer Allston is less a love story than a union between two powerful families. Trapped by tradition and duty, he begins questioning the life laid out for him after meeting the one woman who refuses to be impressed by his name. As months of planning bring Sullivan and Octavia together, an unexpected connection grows between them. In a city where reputation is everything and family loyalty outweighs personal happiness, every choice carries consequences. The closer the wedding draws, the more they must confront what they truly want and what they are willing to sacrifice. Set beneath the moss-draped oaks and salt-filled air of the Lowcountry, this emotionally charged romance explores class, race, identity, and the weight of expectation. Filled with layered relationships, psychological depth, and undeniable chemistry, it is a story about choosing authenticity in a world determined to decide your future for you. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R.L.

fem oc x carl grimes alternate universe

Naya's new to Greyrock, Georgia. She doesn't know where to get a good coffee. Or who she should befriend. Or crush on. She doesn't even know about the walled neighborhood of haunted houses in the woods behind her family's home. But she's about to experience it firsthand. And if she's not careful, the nightmares that inhabit it are never going to let her leave.

Mommy went first, all violent scream and blood in the back of the throat, all rage and fury and crumble until there was nothing left. There isn't much they can do when one draws a bath of gasoline and baby's breath, sinks in and opens her mouth as the fire ignites. Daddy was next. A three piece suit and whiskey spit and old money, hands that didn't quite know where they were supposed to go. Tied you together with ribbon and lace after he ripped you open in the dark, left a grave in your chest and bless anyone who came to visit. Scraped from his study, the constellation of his brains spattered across the books, the wood. Absinthe and cognac in thick crystal decanters, prescriptions that didn't come in his name. ••• Jared-Cameron Fisher and his friends were never supposed to meet Indy Oleander. They certainly weren't supposed to save her. But after pulling her from the wreckage of one bad night, Indy became theirs-wild and wounded and impossible to love halfway; the kind of girl you spend the rest of your life remembering. She entered their lives like a hurricane. She left in pretty much the same way. [ EXTENDED SUMMARY INSIDE ]

Bellweather has always been a town that remembers. Lenora Vale has spent her entire life learning how to live with its ghosts. At twenty-three, she tends bar at The Mercy Bell, where secrets are traded over bourbon and old names are spoken only when the doors are locked. She knows the stories about Blackthorn. She knows what happened to her aunt Eleanor. Or at least, she knows what everyone says happened. Then Jon Bernthal comes home. Fifteen years after leaving Bellweather behind, Jon returns to bury his father and settle the affairs of the crumbling estate his family has owned for generations. He intends to stay only long enough to sell Blackthorn and leave again. But some things don't stay buried. As the summer heat closes in and old secrets begin clawing their way back to the surface, Lenora finds herself drawn toward the one man she's spent her life being warned about. Jon knows something about the night Eleanor disappeared. Lenora knows he isn't telling her everything. And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to tell whether they're uncovering the truth or becoming part of another story Bellweather will never forget.

When Maggie inherits her late grandmother's Georgia Lowcountry house, she finds a locked cellar full of mason jars - each one holding a fragment of a dead relative, each one offering exactly one more conversation. Her brother has already opened six. The cost isn't measured in money. It's measured in years of his own life, and he can't stop paying it.

When Naima Gilliard moves from the Lowcountry to the sleepy town of Marais Clair, she's only looking for a fresh start and a craftsman to build shelves for her natural body care shop. She doesn't expect Asa Baptiste-a quiet, brooding furniture maker with hands like prayer and a past he doesn't talk about. But Marais Clair remembers. The land hums. The Hollow watches. And Asa's blood remembers too. As ancestral spirits begin to stir and old stories claw their way through time, Naima and Asa find themselves caught in a web of secrets, sacred memory, and magic too old to name. Together, they must uncover what binds them-before the Hollow takes back what it once gave. ✨ Mysterious rites, soft moments, Southern folklore, and a child prophesied to be born where the veil thins. If you like: 🔸 Soft Black love with supernatural roots 🔸 Intergenerational legacy and ancestral healing 🔸 Quiet men with sacred hands 🔸 Lush language and mystical small towns Then step carefully. The cypress trees are listening.

Magnolia Whitmore has always known her family keeps secrets. In a family like hers, some things are simply never spoken of. Some names are forgotten. Some doors are never opened. And some memories are best left buried. But after a strange incident leaves her younger sister injured, Magnolia is sent away to St. Orison's University of Occult Studies and Supernatural Sciences, a secluded university hidden among the Louisiana swamps, where the strange is ordinary and everyone seems to have something they're not telling her. There, Magnolia discovers that her own memories may not belong entirely to her. As she settles into life at St. Orison's, the past begins to bleed into the present-through old photographs, forgotten places, and a ghost Magnolia cannot explain. Because some memories refuse to stay buried. And some ghosts have been waiting for her.

"𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮" 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵. ♱ {𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐱 𝐟𝐞𝐦!𝐨𝐜} - 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣 © ɴᴇᴠᴇʀᴄʟᴇᴀʀ spanish, portuguese, and french translations available

A Southern Gothic Ghost Story. When human bones are discovered in a Mississippi river bed, Fran Boden -- a loner with peculiar gifts -- returns to her small town to probe the origins of her mother's long-ago disappearance and confront the ghosts of her family, both living and dead.

𝐆𝐎𝐃 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐃𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐒 this is what they tell you. Detective Jean Kirstein comes home in the middle of summer, and the cicadas sing loud enough to drown out prayer. You think something is buried beneath the church. God has always loved his daughters best when they were afraid. You were a dutiful child You still one You just don't remember what you did. !AOT AU! (credits for the cover to @furinlvrr)

Short little blurbs. Bless your heart.