Thesouth Stories

Imani has spent years grinding at a top-tier insurance firm, pulling ten-hour shifts and proving she's the best on the sales floor. When her hard work finally pays off with a massive promotion and a jump to $26 an hour, she's ready to fully embrace her "bougie" era. To celebrate, she plans an elite weekend getaway to Atlanta-designer bags, rooftop lounges, and zero stress. But the peace doesn't last long. When she meets Julian, a man who matches her fly and treats her like the queen she is, Imani thinks she's finally manifested her dream life. What she doesn't know is that Julian is the younger cousin of her ruthless workplace rival-the woman who tried to block her promotion at every turn. Julian has a secret agenda, but as the sparks fly under the city lights, the line between "the plan" and "the feelings" begins to blur. In a world where reputation is everything, Imani is about to find out that the higher you climb, the harder the fall.

"He said different things in different ways and it caught her imagination; he was everything she'd ever dream, so simply unordinary" - Atticus A train took her to him... a train took her away from him. Cathy fell in love over the summer, the type of love that is true. The type of love that opens your eyes and completely changes her. Cathy discovered herself through her falling in love with the handsome Enoch Gray. She managed to do things, she would never have done before. Enoch disappears and leaves involuntary clues for Cathy. He tells Cathy to move on and finish her original plans. Cathy dedicates her senior year to find Enoch, but learns something about love, life, and herself. Cathy lies and manipulates her way into finding Enoch, but to what end? This is a story for the one who lost their first love. Finding the right person is a long road and may be who you least expect him to be. "It will always be a mystery to me how we can't forget the love that forgot us" -JM Storm

charlottesville. | august 2017. | history is just a cycle of hatred taught from one generation to the next. | this poem is inspired by what has been seen on your television screen or even in your own street.

This is the sequel to Alex Reborn. You don't have to read it first, but I do recommend it. This book will continue the adventures of the Malone family, but will be told through the eyes of Jennifer Malone. In this book I hope to focus on Jen's mental illness and how she comes to terms with it, and how her family does too.

For 30 years, Lou has been waiting for a mystery to walk into his barbershop. After a catastrophic fire hits Lou's small town of Daughtry, the fire inspector steps into his chair--with both a suspect and a secret. Will Lou finally get his chance to solve a mystery and right a wrong?

18 year old Finley and her best friend Hunter have never left each other's side. She loses everything, except him. Her parents want them dead, and they have super powers they haven't even begun to understand. Will they hold each other together through the very worst or crack and crumble under the pressure of saving their lives? This is my first book so feel free to comment any suggestions. Most pics in the story are from the TV series Heartland.

The second book of Cradle Creek. Set in the small town in middle Georgia, what happens when your past collides with your present and worse, your future? How do you move on?

Cassie's moved across the country and is ready for a fresh start. She's spent years being the person she thought she was supposed to be, and now it's time to stop planning and just live. But there's one problem. Anxiety. This is a story about life - the most simple and complex subject out there. Where does the anxiety end and Cassie begin? How can she find herself when her own 'what if's and worries constantly distract her from living life to the fullest?

When you look on social media or on TV, you will always see people putting their opinions out there for the world to hear. Whether it's about sports, politics, etc. But one thing you will hear on the news is Social justice. You'll see these people speaking out on the mistreatment towards people of color and fight for their rights. But do you ever wonder what it is like for those who can't voice their opinion? Do you think about those people who are in worse situations than what you might see in the news. Yeah it's all bad, but try living in places were people will treat you any way they want to. In this story, it follows along two different people with two different backgrounds. Brad, who is a white kid born to wealth and has had a pretty get life. Then there's J, a black guy who is struggling with trying to keep his family safe. This story is full of betrayal, love, drugs, parties, and racism. Side note: if you are sensitive to the subject of racism, this is not for you.

Sutton Grier is no ordinary girl. Straight A's, on her way to medical school, amazing athlete and has a heart for a boy named Kip in her small town of Charlotte, NC. Her older brother Nash and twin, Hayes are vine famous and travel all over meeting their fans and live the influence life, a life Sutton wants no part of. When Sutton and Jack Gilisnky catch each other's eyes sparks begin immediately. But what happens when Sutton loses herself over a boy that doesn't fit into her world and loses sight of where she came from?

It's 1972 when we meet Daryl and Maurice. A friendship that has lasted their whole lifetime, nothing ever coming between them no matter what happened. But things progress and start to change the way people see both of them, the way they see themselves. The way others treat them. But remember, dates are important. Still in the making.

Annie Grace Hawkins, an eight-year-old in the 1960s in the South, couldn't help anything. Her stress, her habits. She couldn't help anything. And nobody understood her.

Mrs. Watson's new party decorator will mean more to her than she initially expected

Tuổi thanh xuân của em là mùa hoa đẹp nhất. Sau này, khi gương mặt em dày dạn sương gió, khi gương mặt em vương nét đọng của thời gian, lúc ấy sẽ là quãng thời gian em tưởng niệm thanh xuân nhất! Tưởng niệm về mùa hoa đẹp nhất trong đời! Mùa hoa này, có anh!

"They call me the wild rose, but my name was Elisa Day. Why they call me it I do not know. For my name was Elisa Day" Beauty does not last forever. It fades and wrinkles like the wild, red roses that grow down by the river. He could not bear to watch her beautiful face the same fate as the rose he held in his hand.

Just a Southern crash course on sayings and meanings from someone in Georgia

Follows beer drinking football coach dad, John who's been arrested for talking to a minor; his ex-wife (recently got back together) Brenda; And their two sons James and Hunter

Georgia grew up in the BIG town of Eastport in the great state of Florida, population 2,000. In a small town you have to make your own fun, this usually meant church on sunday mornings, friday night football games, and of course cheap beer. Georgia Newsome and Thomas Klint were always friends, for as long as they can remember they had known each other. But some time in their senior year between the church house steps and a dirt road they fell in love. Just like most relationships there were complications, okay maybe these complications weren't so normal. After graduation when Thomas wandered off onto a new path it sent the two onto a journey they'd never forget, but will their relationship make it out intact?

18 year old Rally Richards is a typical high school senior - she loves her friends, her family, and a little underage drinking on the weekends. But when one too many beers at a bonfire leads to the accidental reveal of her deepest, darkest secret in front of the entire senior class, she thinks her life might be over. After all, being outed as a lesbian in front of a bunch of drunk teenagers in a small southern conservative town can't end well, can it? Rally's life is turned upside down - but in none of the ways she expected. Instead of finding herself an outcast, she lands the girl of her dreams and a whole new group of friends. But high school is never that easy, is it?