Small Town Stories
Explore our collection of 69 amazing stories tagged with small town. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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The Roadside Collection
Author:Harvey Moore
For twelve years, Jack Riley cleaned up the dead from Route 340. It was a simple, gruesome job. But then, the bodies started disappearing before he could get to them. Something unseen, something silent and impossibly fast, was doing his job for him. He ran, burying the secret for years under the Arizona sun. Now, a new disappearance has pulled him back to the haunted Virginia blacktop. He was the road's keeper once, but he's about to discover what happens when the road, and the things that hunt it, decide to collect.
The Queen of Bones
Author:Asher Stone
A childhood game in a forbidden cave ends in tragedy when Kai's cousin vanishes. The adults blame the mountain; the elders whisper of ancient things that steal children. Fifteen years later, another child is gone, and Kai must return to the reservation to confront the guilt that haunts him and the terrifying truth behind the game they played—a truth that now calls him the new king for its Queen of Bones.
The Road That Eats
Author:Silas Blackwood
Three urban explorers chase the high of a lifetime, stumbling upon a phantom road that only appears under a cloak of fog and darkness. At its end lies a parking lot of impossible size, a silent graveyard for cars and secrets. But this discovery isn't a random glitch in reality; it's a trap. Now marked by the road, they are hunted by its sinister gatekeeper, a man who harvests the wreckage. To survive, they must unravel the terrifying rules of a place that isn't on any map—a place that's hungry for new arrivals.
The Bartender's Revenge
Author:Harper Frost
Her boyfriend was a good man, a loving father trapped in a legal nightmare. His supposed friend was a snake, ready to strike with an affidavit full of venomous lies. As a bartender, Chloe knew everyone's secrets, including the snake's. She saw the perfect weapon lying in plain sight—a bitter debt, a repossessed car, and a pair of dangerous brothers. She would orchestrate a quiet, brutal revenge that would leave no fingerprints, proving that in a world of liars, the truth is a weapon best served cold.
The Paramedic's Prerogative
Author:Joann Elliott
When a callous neighbor blocks his path to a dying patient, veteran paramedic Alex discovers that sometimes, the only way to save a life is to destroy another. His ambulance carries the tools to heal, but his mind now holds a blueprint for cold, calculated revenge. In a world of rules and regulations, he'll write his own, using the system itself as a weapon against a man who believes he's above it all. Justice is coming, not with a siren, but with a whisper.
The Solstice Child of Glass Harbor
Author:Silas Thorne
Every year, the town of Glass Harbor sends a child into the whispering pines to be 'perfected' by an ancient entity. They return whole and healthy, but with vacant eyes. This year, Ethan is the Selected. But unlike the others, he doesn't believe the lies. Armed with forbidden secrets and fueled by his sister's mysterious death, he walks into the darkness not as a sacrifice, but as a hunter. He will uncover the town's rotten core, even if it means being consumed by the truth that waits in the deep.
The Maplewood Meadows Rebellion
Author:Toni Torres
A working mom's quiet suburban life is upended by a corrupt HOA's blatant scam. When they leave a line of saplings to die on her lawn, they awaken a sleeping giant. Armed with a teacher's research skills, a mother's fury, and a stroller full of pamphlets, she launches a one-woman war to dismantle their fraudulent empire. From late-night accounting to courtroom showdowns, this is the story of how one woman took back her neighborhood, proving that the most powerful force on earth is a pissed-off mom with a spreadsheet.
What the Tide Demands
Author:Caspian Dredge
In a desolate coastal village, Elias is the Shearer, tasked with carving flesh from his people as a holy offering to a god of the sea. But when his newest subject, the eerily calm Claire, stares into his soul during the bloody ritual, he begins to unravel a conspiracy of adultery, murder, and the monstrous entity sleeping beneath the waves. The shearing is not for salvation; it's to feed a hunger that will soon drown them all. Elias must choose between his blood-soaked duty and a truth more terrifying than any blade.
Crying Bay
Author:Jessie Mills
When a biblical storm beaches a mysterious Imperial Japanese submarine on the California coast, rookie Deputy Leo and his veteran Sheriff discover a horror far beyond war. Inside the iron tomb, a bio-weapon of unimaginable terror awaits, guarded by a relentless entity born from plague and fanaticism. Leo’s desperate fight for survival is only the beginning. The nightmare that washed ashore in Crying Bay has not been forgotten, and after eighty years of silence, it has finally come to collect its due.
The Scent of Pennies
Author:Timmothy Willis
A childhood sleepover becomes a lifelong nightmare. When an instructor tells a spooky story about a man who vanished from their building, a dare is made. My best friend, Lucas, stepped outside for just a moment. The door was held shut. He screamed that something was out there with him. Then silence. When the door was finally opened, Lucas was gone. All that remained was the chilling, metallic scent of pennies in the air. Now, years later, the scent is back, and I know the thing that took him is coming for me.
The Hunger in the Marrow
Author:Rowan Blackwood
Liam Thorne returns home for his father’s funeral, seeking answers for a life of tragedy. He expects to find closure for his father's suicide and the attempted murder of his brother. Instead, he unearths a sealed stone box, a cryptic videotape, and a horrifying family secret buried for seventeen years. The truth isn't that his mother was murdered. The truth is what she gave birth to. And it's hungry.
Carnival of Echoes
Author:Jeremy Simmmons
In 1986, Leo Vance lost his family to the twisted wonders of Mister Fulcrum's Funhouse. Now, he's back for revenge. But the carnival's horrors are no longer contained. Monsters bleed from a dimension called the Void, and Leo, marked by its power, is the only one who can see them. Armed with a cursed relic and a killer's resolve, he must hunt down Fulcrum as reality itself crumbles into a waking nightmare. But in a world consumed by madness, his greatest enemy might be the darkness growing within him.