Dustbowl Stories

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

I suck at descriptions. One small boy living in the Dust Bowl. Yeah, that's about it.

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...

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

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

In my science class we're learning about droughts, and along with that we learned about the Dust Bowl. For an assignment we have to write a story from a first person vie...

One of the greatest environmental disasters of the 20th century sends 15 year old Jack Martin in search of a better life.

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...

Dust is everywhere. It covers the shelves, the windows, and the road where you walk. The storms roll in unexpectedly. Bringing filth and disease. But what will happen wh...

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...

mature readers only

Ethan was a West Boy, a young boy from the west. He has lived his life in the dust bowl for years, He finally gets the chance to leave the dust and go somewhere else in...

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

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...

The city only came out at noon, and no one but Tabitha could see it.

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...

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...