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.

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.

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...

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...

It was my school project couldn't write over 2000 words.

The world has turned to dust in Bernie's hands. It clings to her, seeps in through the cracks, scours the warmth from her face. The cradle of a train is what she trusts...

A collection of hard fought thoughts and words composed through 30 some years of searching for stories in dive bars and empty bottles, across plains, hills, bayous and m...

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...

The stage is set in the Great Depression that shook the United States pre-World-War II. Jacob Smith's family got separated and he, with his little brother Tommy, are try...

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 girl alone in a world filled with Shadows. Dark Gods, the Followers and demons are all threats. A dark presence watches over her, lurking in the shadows. The new Shado...

The Dustbowl Heartbreak is a short story about Roseline Sawyer, a poor farmer's daughter, who somehow by the grace of God fell in love with Oliver Cowell, the richest ma...

A young boy is give the last vestige of untouched paradise that rests at the edge of a world consumed by industry. At the height of the industrial revolution, each day...

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...

10 years ago, America was dry. Hard as a rock, Covered in dust. Like powdery snow. Sand whirled around, dust storms. Crops were dead, buried alive. Because of these dust...

The American dustbowl has returned in full force, and it's choking the country. All the while, gas shortages are choking the world. Wealthy people are fleeing to shelter...

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...