The Weight of Knowing: A Short Story Cloverlick Holler: Novel Holler

"The ground remembers. The mountains don't wash away blood like the rain does. It sinks right into the coal and the stone."For an office manager in Northern Kentucky, life is measured in concrete highways, factory spreadsheets, and suburban streetlights. It is a quiet, predictable world-and a desperate attempt to outrun the static running through her own veins.Born into an Appalachian family gifted with "the sight," she grew up on the front porch of Cloverlick Holler, listening to her grandparents spin tales of missing tax men, high-ridge beasts, and deep-woods phantoms. But in the mountains, folklore isn't just entertainment. It is a warning.When an innocent autumn drive to see the changing leaves drags her back into the shadow of an abandoned coal mine, the thin skin of time rips wide open. Forced by the iron in her blood to bear witness to a century-old horror, she flees back north with a broken body and a terrifying, uninvited "knowing" that she can no longer control.

Pagina's: 211, Paperback, Independently published