Thegreatdepression Stories

After rising from the slums of the Great Depression and becoming one of the most recognised musicians in London, Rosemary Hughes is finally at peace. Until a famous mus...

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." * * * The Great Depression was, by far, one of the worst tragedies in the history of the world. People d...

The Perfect Gift is a story leading up to Christmas during the late 1930's, when Canadians are beginning to recover from the Great Depression. It shares the story of a y...

Olivia Turner was pretty, smart, kind, God-fearing and hard working. She was the girl every family wanted their daughters to grow up to be like. That is until she made o...

Anna Marie Malloy is a modern day Matriarch. This year she will be 102 years old, and has lived through some of the country's most important events, including the Great...

The interview of a Mister James Welsona, using questions given to me by my peers.

A sequel to "Horoscopes Are Bullshit" Read this first if haven't: https://my.w.tt/LxTzrwHEx7 As It Is are back in the US for The Great Depression Tour and th...

If you like Mickey, Minnie and Pluto you go to Disneyland. If you like Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man you go to Darkland.

"some kill, some steal, some break the law, it doesn't matter as long as we're fed and strong~" Ash Lynx and Eiji Okurmura live during the Great Depression, a...

A class requirement was to write a vignette about someone in the Great Depression. My great grandfather used to tell this story all the time, and it happened to be about...

Evelyn Jacobs loved the small things in life. The smell just before a rainstorm, the shapes the clouds make, the bittersweet smell of the dandelions growing in clumps in...

This is the story of a woman who endured the tragedy of Black Tuesday, the beginning of the Great Depression.

My grandad lived a wild life during the Great Depression. Travelling Australia on horseback, picking up work when he could and robbing houses when he couldn't. In 1989 h...

It's 1929, Vi and Taavin are having a hard time coping with the Great Depression and don't know what to do. But that's the least of their problems, Taavin makes a wrong...

Its a normal day in The Great Depression for Lesie and her brother Jack, until a large accident happens to Lesie, and suddenly she's in a world she never knew. A hoboe...

A prose inspired by The iconic film the Great Gatsby.

This is a story about a man living in New York during the Great Depression. Just as he starts to get settle into his new apartment, he discovers something about the prev...

When hunger strikes...