Appalachian Stories

When Judith Moore finds a dead man on the floor of the dining room, she realizes that the family that hired her as a nanny may be hiding a few secrets. Asked to spy on h...

'Fairy Crosses' are believed to have formed where fairies danced in little valleys between the mountains. On certain nights of the year, settlers believed they could fin...

An alternate tale of the Appalachian legend about a lone person's encounter with a strange, tenacious creature. Artwork by DA Artist SkekLa. Do not use/share art without...

"Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride straight to the devil." Those were the last words Cuzzin Jimbo said to me before I climbed into Frankenstein, my firs...

I lived a life up in the mountains. It was right above the place on which Andy Griffth Show town was based - I guess the mountain people on the show were based on us...

Even though that pistol is aimed on the space right between his eyes, his awe is outweighing his fright. His admiration for her strongly set jaw and her confident grip o...

Harper Magee, the only female dragon rider in Philadelphia, is hiding a secret - the illegal kind with wings and talons. When she falls for a boy she has no business fal...

Somebody Else Was in Control

Dorian has taken a wrong turn on his backpacking trip. The man he meets, Holden, is odd but kind. But is there something he is not telling Dorian?

A collection of short stories set in the foothills of the Appalachians.

This collection of dark poetry and flash fiction wants you to come and play. After all, even the things that live in the dark get lonely . . .

Mountain poetry. Memoirs

Short short story. Appalachian humor.

Heritage, memories, genealogy, faith

Appalachian Poetry

Someone had to cross the Appalachian Mountains, to explore the unexplored, to cross swords with an unknown danger and to build something that nobody has thought of. Nobo...

Paranormal Appalachian beliefs. Death