Midwest Stories

on may 5th, 2005, high school senior molly davis is reported missing after a group drug exchange beneath a bridge on the edge of town. what begins as rumor quickly becomes investigation, and in the close-knit community of milwaukee, suspicion spreads as weeks turn into months with no answers. the last people to see molly alive were four girls from the school's art club - a few acquaintances bound less by affection than circumstance - who return to their daily lives carrying a secret they agreed never to share. over the following year, graduation, family pressures, and ordinary young adult milestones unfold alongside mounting guilt and paranoia. each girl attempts to manage the insurmountable guilt in her own way, until a tragedy within the group forces the full truth into the open.

*A sequel to The Palmer Pool* Vanessa Brooks, now a high-school senior, hopes to put her time-traveling days behind her, until an opportunity arises to return the favor of a fellow time-traveler stuck in the past. ****** As Vanessa Brooks begins her senior year of high school, she hopes that the routine of life as usual will distract her from her memories of Pete, the boy she fell for and left behind in 1953. Now painfully aware of the risks of traveling to the past, she considers her time-traveling days over, even though she still longs to reunite with Pete. But with Eric Anderson, the only person who knows the truth about where Vanessa disappeared to all summer, keeping an uncomfortably close watch on her, along with her suspicious family and friends, she knows the only place she'll ever see Pete again is in her vivid dreams. When Vanessa accidentally travels from a 1920s themed Halloween party at a local historic mansion to an eerily similar party in the actual 1920s, she reconnects with a fellow time-traveler who needs her help. Vanessa discovers her ability to affect time is even stronger than she thought, and so is her determination to fight for what- and who- she wants. Cover by @JELyrica Content Warning: this story contains alcohol and drug use, and references to near-drowning events, panic attacks and drug overdose.

I wanted to make a story about a Femboyant chubby who lives in a dangerous place....Nebraska. I know I know it does sounds dangerous but when accident happened and people left the Midwest it was a ghost town with little to no laws. So when the law left the horrible, troubled and gross people come. They made life for all the other people who stayed hell. Marci is the hero in the story with his low grade telekinesis he try to stop the gangs and be the hero they needed but it did work until something changed. Now it's one Man versus a whole state of criminal. Will he do it or fail and die.

Juliet Adler moves away to a nowhere town with her mother after her parents' divorce. Now she has to spend the summer- and probably her entire life- in this RV-infested small town, Red Oak. And while she's there, she meets two people. Neil Reed and Liam Montgomery. So this place might not be as bad as she thought it would be, until she unintentionally caused strife between the boys, making them fight for her attention. But she doesn't know which one to choose to come out on top, because they're both equally bad for her, but whose to say you can't have both? In secret, of course.

This is the story where you get a sneak peek at what my original story is, and how I revise it! Visit my other book, Sage Chronicles, to see the finished chapters.

Love. Magic. Pain. Desire. All roads lead back to home. Our stories stay with us like summer stains from the mulberries, covering our lips. Memories that keep us warm on cold winter nights; Escaping bedroom windows to meet our lovers on gravel driveways, sisters sharing secrets on our trampoline under the stars, and sitting on fences to eat peaches with juice running down our chins. Get in my car, it's old but it'll take us back. #poetry #memories #femine #sexuality #midwest #siblings #love

It's the summer before life gets real. Four kids, one last summer. Senior year is right around the corner, and Clara Montgomery, Jesse Owens, Mackenzie Wheeler, and Warren Parish all know in their hearts this is the last summer they have of their childhood before they all have to grow up. But their little group that they've had for so long isn't the same as it was before, and even though they won't admit it, all of them are desperate for one last summer of manhunt, honeysuckles, carnivals, lake days, and trail rides in their small town in Wisconsin.

Riggsboro, Iowa. 1980. A young couple is viciously murdered in their sleep. Fifteen years later, a similar grisly killing brings two private detectives to town searching for a connection. Their client? An ailing psychiatrist who believes the murders are the work of an old patient. At the center of it all is a lonely teenage girl named Charlee McCool, who upon discovering an insidious cover-up in the town's past, finds not only her own life in danger, but those whom she loves most. And as a killer closes in, a shady land developer with a checkered past attempts to hinder the investigation, with deadly consequences. Soon all parties discover they are but players in a twisted game, hunted by a madman who knows all their fears, all their secrets--and every move they will make. NOTE: This novel is based loosely on the Halloween series, but the author does not own any rights associated with the franchise. This novel is not to be considered canon, and is in no way affiliated with Trancas International Films, Miramax, Blumhouse Productions, or Universal Pictures. It is an original fan work that merely dabbles in the Halloween universe, taking place between Halloween II (1981) and Halloween H20 (1998). No profit has been made off the material.

How far would you go to help a friend in trouble? Ben Perkins might go so far as to risk his job, but with a friend like David Telano, in the kind of trouble he's in, he'll wind up risking his life. With the encouragement of his girlfriend Jessie, a 24 hour a day weed smoker, Ben is soon mixed up in a war that's going on just beneath the surface of his quiet Ohio town. On one side is a former newspaper editor, radicalized by the murder of her girlfriend, and on the other is a wealthy businessman running a drug-smuggling operation from a private airfield. In between them is Ben, who starts out trying to help a friend but ends up just trying to stay out of jail and continue breathing.

All Rhiannon Collins wants to do is to get through her senior year as under-the-radar as possible. After a scandal the year before that left her with a bad reputation, she just wants to blend in and get through her last year of high school so she can graduate already. Things change when a mysterious new boy shows up at school, who can't keep his eyes off of her.

When DeHypnos returns with a new, improved leader, Charles and his friends can stop DeHypnos by voting. But Charles' friends, Ben and Howard, saw anything dirty that DeHypnos did. So there's up to them to stop DeHypnos again. So who's winning the election? Will hypnosis be legal?

Mason Forsberg is #12 for the Park Christian Falcons-varsity football, but mostly from the bench. While his best friend Logan Giese racks up highlights and big plays, Mason's stuck watching, tired of the limited snaps and the constant feeling that he's just... overlooked. Around the guys, he's all in-joking, hyping, easy. But around girls? Super shy, words tangled, and a little clumsy-spilling drinks, tripping over compliments, the works. The girls on the volleyball team (according to Makkena "Kenna" Christenson, Logan's girlfriend) see him as the "cute and comedic guy"-endearing in his awkwardness, always good for a laugh. But to Mason, it's just another reason he'll probably never get a real girlfriend. Dating talk now hits different: short answers, forced smiles, quick subject changes, that quiet defeated slump. Then there's Lydia-Kenna's best friend on the volleyball team, kind and sweet, but shy around boys when she's on her own. With Kenna and Siri by her side, though, she lights up-laughing, talking, even teasing a little. Their worlds overlap constantly: post-game hangouts, school nights, group chats. Neither knows how to act when it's just the two of them-awkward silences, stolen glances, both blushing at the smallest things. But in the group, with her friends as backup, Lydia starts to see the guy who's loyal and funny (even when he doesn't mean to be), and Mason starts to wonder if being "cute and clumsy" could actually be enough for someone who gets it. In a small Midwest high school where football Fridays and volleyball seasons collide, two shy people start figuring out that maybe the best connections come from not being perfect... just being real. Clean teen romance | High school sports | Mutual shyness | Cute clumsy guy | Friends-to-more | Feeling overlooked | Small-town vibes | Volleyball & football crossover

A middle-aged trucker driving a bread truck across the Midwest meets a young, male prostitute outside of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The young man is a free spirit and a talented guitarist, but he's a "bad boy" and he drinks too much.

In the face of gender discrimination and tragedy, a determined young girl and her father form the first co-ed basketball team in their small town, inspiring unity and equal opportunities for all, in this powerful narrative of hope, heartache and triumph.

It's life at the library in the small town in the midwest, close to Omaha. It's got romance, bromance and all sorts of couples..but the main two characters in this novel Is Bex & Oliver.

This storyline is all about a young black man who struggles to get respect from people he knows until an hallucinogenic freak accident happens. This accident is the result of him gaining abilities no normal human can endure. With how good of a person he's trying to be, he uses these abilities to protect and serve the state of Minnesota. With such power at a very young age, can he serve his purpose? His destiny? Find out by checking this story out for yourself. This story is still in development (I had this story, along with a bunch of other stories I have in my mind since I was 11. So for 8-9 years I wanted to share my stories to people but I'm too nervous to.) so things will change if it doesn't sit right with me. I'm also open to anyone of what I should change in my stories to improve and strengthen it. (as long as the criticism is constructive and not destructive/negative.) The ORIGINAL BERRY story is heavily based on my life at the time I was in middle school. Since this is based my IRL story I have to edit names, places, etc, to prevent privacy from being violated, places I went to are exposed, etc. The story is long, so it will be divided up part after part, kind of like a saga/arc after saga/arc. Like a trilogy. After I complete the sagas, I will divide them into a title. Think of these titles like movies. This story is "teen friendly." (is that even a word?) Meaning that it's PG-13. My story is somewhat light-hearted but it does contain a little content that isn't suitable for everyone. The story contains the following: mild, sometimes strong language, moderate violence, mention of drugs and alcohol, moderate humor, mild dialogue, mild blood. Viewer discretion is advised.

Just a bunch of short stories inspired by Midwest Gothic. If you want, you can ask for a specific topic and I'll write for it.

Its a calm Monday afternoon, but it would soon become a day which would go down in tornado history, with 74 tornadoes across Oklahoma and Kansas, one tornado would break records, and a 13 year old boy named Jacob would experience it all... (this story is shorter than i wanted it)