Kentucky Stories

In the fall of 2004, eighteen-year-old Rosie Benson leaves her family in Florida to build a new life in the small town of Mount Joy, Kentucky. Determined to become a pediatric doctor, Rosie must learn to balance college, Type 1 diabetes, new responsibilities, and the challenge of creating a home far from everything familiar. Then she meets Karen Divine. Karen is a locomotive machinist with grease on her hands, dreams of operating the trains she repairs, and a guarded heart she rarely allows anyone to see. What begins as an unexpected friendship slowly grows through late-night conversations, shared meals, difficult truths, and the quiet kindness of two women discovering that love should never require either of them to become smaller. With an orange-and-white cat ruling Rosie's apartment, a devoted community watching over them, and new opportunities drawing both women closer to their dreams, Rosie and Karen must decide whether old wounds will control their future-or whether they are finally ready to choose each other. Set beneath fairy lights and beside steel rails, *Engine of My Heart: Fairy Lights on Steel Rails* is a warm, emotional sapphic romance about ambitious dreams, healing, found family, and a friendship becoming something neither woman can deny. Sometimes the person destined to change your life arrives long before you understand why. This story is complete. New chapters every Thursday and Sunday.

A Thoroughbred fanfic. This story takes place approximately 16 months after my story "Behind the Northern Lights". Everything seems picture-perfect for Ashleigh and Mike. They are forced to make tough decisions and they soon learn that it is necessary, though not always easy to compromise.

Katie Williamson never expected that a frisbee to the face would change her life, but meeting Ben Monroe feels like fate wrapped up in sunshine. Their connection is instant, intense, and impossible to ignore. So when Kate follows Ben to his small hometown of Blessings, Kentucky, she believes she's stepping into a new beginning But Blessings isn't exactly welcoming. The town whispers all about her and Ben's high school ex? She's convinced that his return means destiny is finally giving her a second chance. As pressure builds and loyalties shift, Katie must decide whether love this powerful is worth fighting for - especially when the town seems determined to tear it apart.

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When Maggie Driver purchases an old home tucked away on the edge of Hawthorn Mountain, she knows she isn't buying just four walls and a piece of land. The realtor gives her the history every buyer should know-the house's final occupant was Evelyn Haywood, a woman whose name became whispered throughout the mountain after the brutal murder of her husband in August of 1964. The story was written off as a tragedy. A closed case. A piece of Hawthorn Mountain's darker history. But Maggie has always been drawn to the stories people leave behind. As she restores the forgotten rooms of the house, she begins uncovering pieces of Evelyn's life that never made it into the records-old photographs, hidden letters, and secrets carefully buried beneath decades of silence. Because houses remember the people who lived inside them. ______________________ A book from the collection of the Hawthorn Mountain Novels "Every Hawthorn Mountain novel stands on its own. Different characters. Different genres. One mountain where every story begins with something the mountain never forgot."

The town of Grand Rivers in Livingston County, Kentucky is hit with an unexplainable sickness that leaves multiple dead and many more shaken.

A semi-fictional love story between 14 and 15 year old Caden and Heather.

Hundreds of miles away from our favorite group of Zombie Apocalypse survivors, we find a ragtag group that has stumbled upon a woman that has all the answers... and the one thing they need more than anything else; hope for a future. Submission for the Elsewhere Anthology sponsored by @wattzombie and @walkingdeadveterans. 2000 words

Sophie Craig is moving far away from home and isn't happy about it. She had it good where home was. She had a boyfriend, great best freinds and she was turning 16 soon. Then on a house hunting trip to Glasgow, Kentucky, things get shaken up. She meets a mysterious boy and his siblings at the swimming center across from her hotel, her boyfriend breaks her heart, and her dad gives her some suprising news. Can she survive the summer without her heart breaking to the point where it can't be fixed?

This story is about a girl named Aaliyah who wants to make it into the music business and goes to a bar to drink and think about her then she meets a guy named Justin who sweeps her off her feet. Aaliyah's Muse- Sarah Michelle Gellar Justin's Muse- David Boreanaz Bobby Muse- Ian Somerhalder

There is something more precious than fresh air, genuine love, clean water, or pure gold. It's called Big Data. In this day and age it's become the new "blood diamonds" of the world. Information about your sexual preferences, how you vote, and what you're most likely to consume within the next six months are applications that barely scratch the surface of the resource's capabilities. Like any industry dealing with a precious resource too, it's becoming a more and more competitive market. Tech hubs, like Silicon Valley, have become boom towns in this fervent "gold rush" to mine Big Data. For laymen, and poverty strangled families, this all translates translates into one word: jobs. Many "unemployed" workers are finding themselves starting new careers in data mining across the U.S. Especially those who've worked in other "mining" industries. For laid off coal miner and native Kentuckian, Jacob Crawly, this all just seems like "high brow" news until a rep from a tech start up called Sedaris approaches him. They want to give him a job mining again. Not much else is clear for Crawleys, but Sedaris knows he'd be a "great hire.". Having to move to California, sending money back home, the thirty year old father of two accepts the position. Soon though, he realizes the long hours, and mundane regiment of the job, are taxing. In what he believes are his dreams and fantasies, he longs for the touch of his wife and the small comforts of home. Many questions linger for Crawley at the same time. What is his job exactly? What are his duties as: an employee, father, a husband, American, and decent man? In an age of government leaks about public surveillance, a fifty year war on poverty (led by LBJ), privacy is nothing more than a fleeting fantasy. "Miner" is a dramatic, sci-fi story that will have you clicking the "next page" button up to the end.

When a mysterious body washes up in a small 19th Century Kentucky town, two local villagers - a secular-minded lawyer and man of the cloth - will unravel a decades-spanning tale of war, hope, despair, and boundless devotion.