Dustbowl Stories

Elvis Presley and Loretta Lynn are filming a movie in the midst of his marriage crisis.

Papa said it wouldn't reach us, but he was wrong. The Dust came and got us. It took everything from us. And there wasn't nothin' we could've done to stop it.

A short story based of off the Dust Bowl that took place between 1934 to 1937.

The year is 1933. The citizens of the small farming town, Thomasville, are living through the dustbowl. Survival is difficult and tensions are high. Most have abandoned...

Set in the Dust Bowl of the 1930's, a man has to battle against the elements, and, more importantly, himself to save his family. A short story I wrote for my college cre...

When a teenage girl helps clean her Grandmothers attic she discovers a diary depicting the life of a young girl living during the dust bowl.

A 14 year old girls' life in The Dust Bowl. Told in poem form.

Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't fall in love. However, it does make it harder, especially when you're a boy, in love with another boy, in the middle of t...

After a cluster of mysterious fires, tensions mount between a husband and wife when suspicion falls on their traumatized niece. This is a short preview of a published...

When a curious eight-year-old little girl finds herself in the midst of The Great Depression, Annie Sloan has some decisions to make about growing up when her mother com...

This story is the alternate ending to the Kristin Hannah story The Four Winds. This story follows the Martinelli family as they flee from Texas to California during th...

The story of fantastical life and death Franklin Delano Roosevelt Corcoran lived through the eyes of his daughter in seven minutes flat.

Sadie, is a teenage girl forced to clean out her Grandmother's attic. As she begins cleaning she notices an old, dusty Diary, curiosity over takes her as she wants to kn...

A story set in the time of the Great Depression. Once upon a time there was a girl named Drew Lafyette, who was born into a family of farmers with a father, a mother, t...

What happens when a young boy in Oklahoma has to give his blanket up in an unusual circumstance? Will he make the sacrifice or will he face repercussions? Out here in th...

After the Dust Bowl stole his wife, John is forced to raise his son Daniel. John's brother Michael does everything he can to help, but it just seems like John is slowly...

A short story I wrote for my History class in school. It is very short and tells a tiny story about a boy named Nick and his family. Once again, very short.

James Doyle Royce is a young American boy who loses his loved ones and has to create a new life for himself. He meets new friends, and goes on to survive major storms an...

A short story about two sisters, set in Kansas in 1932 during the Dust Bowl.