Bayou Stories

Down in the Bayou, the rules and legends are a little different.

Love. Knowledge. Memory. Regret. They all form the terrain of life. Topography: Poems explores the places, both physical and mental, we navigate on our human journeys. Alternately melodic, frank and imaginative, these free verse poems speak to the peaks and valleys familiar to us all. This is a preview, check out the full book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1548455423/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500228160&sr=8-1&keywords=lynn+north+topography

Down in Louisiana, stories are told from generation to generation. From grandparent to grandchild. The story you're about to read, well, it's your choice if you choose to believe it or not. When you dance with the devil, There's a price to pay; He gave it all for his lovers way.

When you're just a girl who has only lived in Columbus, Ohio, decides to take on the bayou's LSU tigers. You're also the girl that falls for a Louisiana boy, who happens to play football, Ja'Marr Chase

Deep within the swamp, Agwé lives a peaceful life among his family and animal friends, with whom he shares a special gift. That is, until his life is torn asunder and he is driven from his home by the voodoo spirits. Lost and alone, he wanders the Wild West, burdened by guilt and a quest for redemption. From the deserts of New Austin to the mountains of the north, he is guided on a dangerous journey of self discovery and adventure. Will the Bayou Beast find a way to finally return to his home and rid the swamps of the evil therein?

Rachel, the teenage daughter of a hunter in the trade of hunting monsters and other spooks, has found herself with a problem. Thinking her Daddy is a lawyer and that her dear old Gramps was the only one who knew his way around a shotgun, she feels inclined to handle the 'thing' in her pool. After moving to the state of Louisiana, hearing that the floods brought water all the way up to her home on the edge of the wetlands, she finds a fish? No bigger and meaner than her normal everyday goldfish of bass. This is something that no only broke her rod and net, but is trying to get out once she starts cleaning out it's 'home'...

16 year old Sage Johnson was on a boating trip to the swamp with her dad. It was supposed to be a fun trip. When her dad gets attacked by an alligator she goes out on her own to go look for help. When she comes across a small house she ask the 17 year old boy named Tyler for help. Instead of offering for help he captures her and forces her to be his girlfriend. She attempts to escape many times but fails. In the middle of nowhere she was no one to count on. Suddenly she finds herself falling for him. Will she be with him and stay there or will she leave in search for her injured father?

Lauren heads to Louisiana to attend to her grandmother's 'estate' ... she had never met her and in fact, none of her relatives had even known she had still been alive all of those years ... as Lauren unravels her grandmother's past, she begins to understand her own life ...

This family was doomed from the start. Every generation. Will the Harvey curse ruin the family forever. IF ONLY THEY KNEW.

In New Orleans, the dead don't rest. They whisper. They hunger. They remember. Lucien Moreau is a man of reason, a Cajun detective with a sharp mind and a bitter tongue. But when a girl goes missing and the city's shadows stretch longer than usual, Lucien stumbles into something ancient-something fanged, clawed, and cursed. Bitten under a blood-heavy moon, Lucien awakens to a world of werewolf packs that ride like outlaws, witches older than the city's cobblestones, and runes that burn themselves into the skin of the damned. At the heart of it all is a ritual, an omega wolf haunted by murders he doesn't remember, and a woman tied to the bloodline of Marie Laveau herself. They say the Blue Moon only rises once in a great while. But when it does, the devil listens. And the bayou bleeds.

17th Century United States-Daniella De Exter had it all. She was an only child to a wealthy man, she never wanted for anything. Until one day, her father married Evil Lucinda Darcey. Lucinda had 2 children of her own, spoiled rotten twins Corinna and Brianna, and all she wanted was for them to leave. But Daniella learned the hard way, you never get what you want. Instead, her father dies on a hunting expedition weeks after marrying Evil Lucinda, leaving her an orphan and alone in Lucinda's care. Lucinda wanting nothing to do with Daniella strips her of not only her wealth, but her pride and integrity, banishing her to the confines of the plantations basements, only allowing her to see the light of day, to wait on her stepsisters. Soon, Daniella wilts away to nothing, not wanting to live that way anymore, she promises herself peace after one deed is finished. During the night, she sneaks up from the basements and kills her step family, but what she doesn't learn until she dies herself, is one of the sisters never really died. Present Day United States- Every Year, the De Exter Plantation is publicly open on Halloween Night. It is known to be the most haunted location in all of Louisiana. Every Halloween a lottery is drawn in the small town of Exter, the winners win an all night pass to the grounds and the house. Complete lock-down from dusk til dawn. This year 21 Year old Hunter Brigley and his 7 year old sister Hope and 2 others are forced onto the plantation well before the lockdown and its a struggle from the moment the gate closes to stay alive. Hunter uses his common sense and logic to his advantage, but soon fear of loosing his sister overwhelms him and he soon finds out is just how confusing and distorted reality gets once inside the Plantation walls. He has to risk everything just to save his and his sisters life. And being descended from the very family that the ghost who supposedly haunts the plantation killed, doesnt put the odds in there favor.

Esme a seventeen-year-old wolf who has most of her life been closed off. Lost and confused in the bayou she wondered thinking to herself. In the bayou a man named Lucas who was about eighteen found her wandering. He smiled at Esme and took off. Esme took a deep breath and tilted her head curiously to who he was. Could he be the one to free her of herself?

Rebecca and her friends have fun at a party taking a DNA test to discover their origins. The unexpected results lead Rebecca into a series of events that shatter her certainties. The landmarks of her already mapped-out life begin to waver. Some truths should remain in the shadows...

It's the year 1995 but he's been trapped here for much longer

For years young Rosemary kept tradition alive and gave sacrifice to the mermaid that swam In the bayou behind the plantation she lived on. The legend and tradition started long before rosemary was born. One evening the mermaid reveals herself to Rosemary with a plan to take back the plantation. What's done in the dark always comes to light especially 'When Murky Waters Come Alive. "

The story of a young man suffering from memory loss finds himself welcomed into a family of strangers. After some time, he must save them from the fathers mysterious past of which comes back to haunt him. Despite the danger which has fallen upon the family he falls in love with their daughter, Lacey, who has the ability to being his memory back to life. With these memories back in place, he finds the sad reality of who he really is... a dark, cold and calculating individual who will stop at nothing to protect who he loves.

Out of rage for killing her daughter, a mother makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to exact her revenge.