Southwestern Stories

Pleasant Valley, Arizona Territory, 1882. The land between the Mogollon Rim and the creek bottoms is beautiful the way a held breath is beautiful - still, charged, waiting. Nora Callan came west with a dead husband and a gift she does not name: a barometer's sensitivity to the invisible weight of what men are about to do. She did not come for trouble. But the valley has its own intentions. When two ranching families - the Tewksburys and the Grahams, friends once, now something else - begin their slow slide toward the bloodiest feud in the history of the American West, Nora finds herself caught between them: reading the weather, unable to stop the storm. The Rim Country is a story about what a place remembers. And what it refuses to forget.

College student, Eli Clark, rediscovers old memories as she walks throughout a southwestern ghost town.

At the end of just another ordinary day's work, Isabel's commute is hijacked by metal horrors calling themselves - Daleks. She and her fellow bus-riders are put to work clearing an empty lot in the middle of Albuquerque, guarded by mindless men, threatened with death. Their only hope: A strange little man calling himself the Doctor... Trusting the Doctor is the craziest thing Isabel has ever done. But when it pays off, she must choose to trust him again and dive into a desperate effort to stop a Dalek invasion and save the world - or go back to life as she's always known it, for however long they all have left. One thing is certain: Live or die, nothing will ever be the same. . . . This is my first and only complete effort at fan-fiction! It's a few years old, so apologies in advance for outdated technology references. And the somewhat clunky writing... The Doctor is Patrick Troughton's. The main character is Isabel Thompson - a proposed traveling companion of my own invention. The villains are the Daleks. Enjoy! New chapters posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, starting March 29, 2019

"In the quiet hum of my apartment, where shadows dance on the walls, I am at peace, alone with my silent cat. I've been living here temporarily before seven nights, surrounded by the black and brown canvas of the night outside my window. It's a big change from the pink dream I had last night. I want to paint it by the color I love especially the rose shade. But one night, a dark night, the wind whispered secrets, and I fell asleep. The cat's strange silence was trying to wake me up. Masculine whispers came from the library below, like old voices and rich laughters sent shivers down my spine but my eyes is starting to drift off again." it is about an unknown Parisian girl and the other mysterious Aesthetics and situations are soft sepia and white gothic. All of details are fictional. ꕤTo God Be The Gloryꕤ by avonpoet𐙚

(Running) to escape from something or someone... (Fear) a belief that someone or something is dangerous likely to cause pain or threat. Attila Monroe has been running what seems to be his whole life the fear of something he knew was coming all too soon the ability to choose taking away, so what else was left for him to do but run with the threat closer than ever Attila Monroe will continue running.

Read chapter one of literary suspense novel So Pipe the Young. Annabelle Granger has always made good decisions. That's why she quit oil painting in college to become a robotics engineer. That's why she married Dr. Paul Granger, management consultant, her supportive modern mate. Together with their five-year-old son, Heath, they are living the suburban dream. But Annabelle fears her sensible life lacks originality. Will she ever make her mark? Following a violent death at Heath's school, the Grangers uproot for Box Elder, New Mexico, a rural farming valley, seeking the simple life. While Paul travels to clients each week and Heath plays all day with his new friends at the river, Annabelle seizes her chance to leave a mark. She builds an Instagram brand, remaking herself as a bellwether warning of the ills of suburbia and touting the joys of homesteading. But her Instagram image disguises a much darker reality. Life amongst the underserved families who have lived on the same land for generations challenges Annabelle's worldview and has set her decision-making compass spinning. Are the neighborhood children independent or neglected? Are they helping Heath recover from the terrible incident at his old school or encouraging his morbid fascination with death? Is this wholesome country life or something much more sinister? Annabelle has always made good decisions, but moving to Box Elder will not be one of them.

This is a story about a girl with a burnt eye and an imaginary dog. A unique tale of insanity, and love, and a mystery that doesn't end in either tragedy or perfect happiness.

Living in a abandoned civilization in the future in the southwestern land of the United States. A Native American family struggles to survive after losing their parents, the siblings learn to live on their own. Two Siblings travels home as they face difficult task to return. As they travel they use their skills to survive to return safely.