Southerngothic cerita

Holly Gaines is a young witch, orphaned after the death of her parents years earlier. She bides her time taking art classes and waiting for the day she can finally leave behind the streets of Savannah. When two handsome strangers roll into her favourite bar, she knows she can't trust them. After all, they're Hunters. And Hunters don't mix well with witches. Hunters are the reason her parents are dead - or so she thinks. But after a near death experience, Holly finds her very soul bound to one of one of the brothers, a man she never thought she could trust. Now her and the Winchesters have to work together to take down the menacing presence that's been stalking her city... one that's got his fangs aimed right for Holly's throat. **** This is a fanfic novella based on the show Supernatural, but it doesn't require knowledge of the show to enjoy. Featuring an original FMC.

A violent storm traps Naomi Price and her strict preacher father inside their isolated Southern home. But the real danger begins when a stranger named Silas "Silk" Ward knocks on their door, claiming his car broke down on the dark road outside. What starts as simple hospitality turns into a tense, unpredictable night as Silk's calm politeness slowly shifts into something unsettling. The Reverend grows suspicious. Naomi grows uneasy. And the storm outside becomes nothing compared to the storm building inside their home. As secrets unravel and motives twist, the Price family learns that some guests don't come by accident - and some nights change everything. A reimagining of Uninvited Guest with a father-daughter household, a stranger they've never met, and a night they'll never forget.

"𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶" Lucille Smith, Negan Smiths daughter finally meets her secret walkie talkie boyfriend, but unfortunately for them, its while her dad is beating his friends to death with a bat. (carl grimes x fem oc)

Short story that depicts a girl and her family trapped in their house, unable to move due to starvation from extreme poverty and their mother's religious delusions. Inedia: a religious concept representing the supposed ability to live without food, relying solely on the divine, sunlight or air. Followers believe they can sustain life through spiritual means alone rather than physical nutrition

When Riley and Casey move from Pasadena to a sprawling East Texas manor, they expect a renovation project. What they get is a "Divided Front" of spirits determined to test their relationship. From sabotage in the bathroom to disco parties in the library, life in the Sabine Manor is anything but quiet. Based loosly off the CBS show Ghosts.

A young man picks up a pretty hitchhiker in this Southern Gothic thriller. Twist ending.

This piece of flash fiction is packed full of lyrical prose that tells the story of a short but passionate love in a forgotten Alabama town, inspired by Ethel Cain's 'Powerline Valley'

In early June of 1978, Verona Georgia hosts its annual fair to mark the beginning of summer. However, 58-year-old Bobby Lewis is still hung on his wife's mysterious disappearance earlier that spring. As he investigates the clues left behind from his wife, he stumbles upon a young boy. While taking care of this boy and still searching for his wife, Bobby reveals the true reality of his small southern town, with secrets that not only endanger his wife, but himself too.

In East Texas, you're expected to come back with pie, gossip, or maybe a good story. Just not blood on your hands. Briar brought home a Frenchman, a secret, and more trouble than her mama's prayers could fix. Prompt 51: "While in search of a missing friend, you accidentally kidnap the most feared crime lord." #ONC2026 (Open Novella Contest 2026)

Sloane Moore restores ghosts for a living, peeling back layers of grime to find the truth. But she should have left the LaMonté family buried. What starts as a Manhattan romance leads her straight into the humid shadows of a Louisiana plantation, where the hospitality is as stifling as the heat. In a house where the walls hold their breath, Sloane realizes she wasn't just invited to a party. She was hand-picked for a legacy, and the LaMontés never let a masterpiece go. Bless Your Heart is a modern Southern Gothic where the quiet luxury of ancestral wealth masks a century of rot. It explores the suffocating weight of tradition and the razor-thin line between being cherished and being possessed. Atmospheric and unsettling, it's a story about the ways the past reaches out to claim the present, and the terrifying realization that some things can only be restored by fire. #1 in Louisiana- April 2026

When Maryanne Carter's young daughter vanishes from their rural Southern trailer park, the town is quick to blame her. After all, Maryanne has always been the girl people whisper about. But the deeper Maryanne digs, the more she uncovers about her town's forgotten history: a congregation obsessed with purity, a riverbed full of unspoken names, and a ledger of children stolen in the name of salvation. As the past bleeds into the present, Maryanne is pulled into a world where the dead refuse to stay buried. To save her daughter, she must confront the ghosts of a faith twisted beyond recognition, and the secrets that have haunted the small town of Braswell for generations. Content Warnings: References to drugs and alcohol, referenced murder, missing children, cults --- Fully completed, but I'm releasing new chapters every Friday. I'm thinking about publishing this story officially, so please feel free to leave constructive criticism. Chapters Published: 17/20

A priest walks into a bar to find real evil

In Loreley Bayou, nothing stays buried. The town feeds on whispers, secrets travel faster than the water, and everyone is always watching. When nine-year-old Kennedy Hart arrives at a crumbling trailer park on the edge of the swamp, she expects more of the same-silence, survival, and learning how to be forgotten. But then she meets Fulvia Goode, a quiet girl with knowing eyes and a strange calm that feels like something Kennedy has been missing all along. What begins as a childhood friendship-muddy feet, late summer laughter, and shared secrets beneath the cypress trees-becomes something deeper. Hidden. Binding. Under the watchful eye of Fulvia's grandmother, Grams, the girls grow side by side in the shadows of a small Louisiana town that never truly minds its own business. Then one night, they reach for magic they barely understand. They don't talk about what happened after. They don't tell anyone what they felt. But they never forget it. Because as the years pass, something between them begins to change-quiet at first, then sharper, heavier, impossible to ignore. The bond they created doesn't fade. It grows. And whatever they set in motion that night is still there... waiting.

When a hurricane tears through the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Whitley Ranch is left in ruins, and the body of a man floats to the surface. As the floodwaters recede, the Whitley family faces not only the wreckage of their home but the unraveling of everything they thought they knew about one another. In the mud and silence of Appalachia, where good people do terrible things to survive, even the daylilies can't grow without death.

It's the year 1971 in Palmetto County Brackwater, South Carolina -freedom exists, but only if you know how to carry it quietly. For the first in history had been integrated with black and white kids at ELIAS T. CROWE, a once black school, now with white kids not because of the law, but because there school closing down. Bart is the revolutionary, the boy who won't let you forget what this country keeps trying to move past. He names the rules, laughs at them, and dares anyone to deny them out loud. Mari listens to everything; sees patterns early and remembers them. And Ruth is coming of age. Watching. Learning when to agree, when to stay quiet, and when silence starts to feel like a lie. She learns what it means to be a Black girl in a world that watches closely, and forgives unevenly. Set among cicadas, tight roads, church pews, and classrooms heavy with unspoken history, [AFTER THE LAW SAID FREE] is a Southern Gothic story about memory, revolution, girlhood, and 11th grade where everything begins to change.

[personal, informal project] there is a house, large and of improbable structure, backed against a pine forest at the edge of town. sometimes the wind picks up the sound of a banjo on the front porch, or the smell of rotted flowers from the vases lined up on the window sill, and carries them out to the person who needs them. sometimes the people in the house by the pines come into town for groceries and the old ladies sitting outside the convenience store whisper to each other. sometimes you find yourself in the front yard.

1930's American Deep South. After a few weeks of bliss, Charlotte and Sedge Rangel are about to find out what happens when the past catches up with them. Hiding from reality never hurt so much. Challenge: Write a Southern Gothic Short Story Stylistic and other References: A Rose for Emily, A Streetcar Named Desire

Breaking a curse isn't easy, especially when your great-great-grandmother was a Victorian witch who spelled her own family. Join 16-year-old Lily Killough on a magical adventure through time to heal ancestral wounds and break the ties that bind in this intergenerational YA mystery. All her life 16-year-old Lily has dreamed of attending the annual Victorian Ball in her hometown of Waxahachie, Texas. When she lands her first job with the company catering the party, Lily gets a glimpse of the opulent event from behind the scenes. As she pokes around the Queen Anne-era Victorian mansion Twin Oaks House, Lily discovers a thrilling secret. The original owner of the property is her great-great-grandmother, a once-powerful matriarch disgraced over accusations of infidelity and witchcraft. With the help of her departed ancestors (and her crush), Lily is transported through time to attempt to right the wrongs of the past. But after revealing the disturbing origins of a generational curse imprisoning her family and their magic, will Lily have the power to break the chains and rewrite history? Only time will tell.... and, unfortunately, the clock is ticking. Lily must solve the mystery and return to the present day before the Victorian Ball is over at the stroke of midnight.

- ͙۪۪̥˚┊❛ 𝐣𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬. 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞.❜┊˚ ͙۪۪̥◌ ᴵⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗ ᵒᶠ ˢᵃᵛᵃⁿⁿᵃʰ, ᴳᵉᵒʳᵍⁱᵃ, ʷʰᵉʳᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ˢⁱᵈᵉʷᵃˡᵏˢ ᵃʳᵉ ᵇᵘⁱˡᵗ ᵒᵛᵉʳ ᵇᵒᵈⁱᵉˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᵃˢᵗ ⁱˢ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵗʳᵘˡʸ ᵇᵘʳⁱᵉᵈ, ᴶᵃᵈᵉ ⁱⁿʰᵉʳⁱᵗˢ ʰᵉʳ ᶠᵃᵐⁱˡʸ'ˢ ᵒˡᵈ ʸᵉᵗ ʷᵃʳᵐ ᵉˢᵗᵃᵗᵉ. ·˚ ༘₊· ͟͟͞͞꒰➳ ᴿᵒʷᵃⁿ ᴮᵉˡˡ ʷᵃˢ ᵐᵒʳᵉ ᶠᵃᵐⁱˡⁱᵃʳ ᵗᵒ ᴶᵃᵈᵉ ᵗʰᵃⁿ ᵃⁿʸᵒⁿᵉ ᵉˡˢᵉ ᶜᵒᵘˡᵈ ᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵇᵉ. ᶻᵃⁿᵈᵉʳ ʷⁱˡˡ ᵏⁱˡˡ ᶠᵒʳ ʰᵉʳ. - ͙۪۪̥˚┊❛ "𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭. 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞.❜┊˚ ͙۪۪̥◌ WIP - More chapters on the way!

Stevie knew it had to be done, but the logistics were a bit of a problem.