Found 79 works tagged 'Mystery'.
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VIRGINIA
Published Jun 7, 2019 · 3,797 words (14 minutes) · 101 views
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George Graham discovers you must be very careful what or who you wish for!
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Possibilities of a Quantum Soul
Published Jun 6, 2019 · 1,008 words (4 minutes) · 7 likes · 356 views
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A human being with a quantum soul contains many possible lives and identities. If you unmake one of those lives, is it theft, murder, or none of the above? Dari struggles to find the woman responsible and reclaim their own identity.
Holly Heisey is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer whose work has appeared in Escape Pod, Transcendent 2, F&SF, SciFutures, and more. They generously make many of their #ownvoices stories available under a Creative Commons license, and share a roundup of all their LGBTQIA work on Curious Fictions here.
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Plums. With Coffee
Published Jun 4, 2019 · 999 words (4 minutes) · 1 view
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Murder, cold plums and coffee and a lost scrap of poetry.
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Wipe Out
Published May 29, 2019 · 3,281 words (12 minutes) · 102 views
Wipe Out was the third in my series from long ago about an ambitious Vancouver burglar named Mikey that ran in the lamented and brilliant online magazine, Blue Murder, back around the turn of the century. Today’s readers will note that advances in IT render the plot unworkable. But in those days, it was a thing.
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On the Deathbed of Carl Rudolph
Published May 29, 2019 · 681 words (3 minutes) · 75 views
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Feeding The Crows
Published May 12, 2019 · 5,975 words (22 minutes) · 1 like · 109 views
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Contract Pending - Chapter 1 & 2 of Book 1 - The Frankie Fiore series
Published May 12, 2019 · 2,265 words (9 minutes) · 103 views
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A tale of the evolution of Frankie Fiore, from a young man working in his father's shoe store, to a hoodlum working the streets of New York. Recruited by the local mob boss to do collections, Frankie successfully climbs the crime ladder until the day his partner steals the boss' money. Frankie and his partner then become the subjects of a contract put out on their lives.
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The Death of Sherlock Holmes
Published May 9, 2019 · 6,292 words (23 minutes) · 94 views
Sherlock Holmes last case is the search for a madman who cuts of the heads of his female victims.
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The Nature of Things
Published May 7, 2019 · 7,777 words (29 minutes) · 7 likes · 361 views
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Harry Ferguson, assistant DA, is facing two mysteries: the location of a missing murder weapon, and why his family's new house seems to have a mind of its own. To solve both these cases, he'll have to take an unorthodox approach to witness interviews—and take a hard look at what goes bump in the night.
Ahead of the weekend, enjoy this longer read by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. A founding member of Book View Cafe, she’s been shortlisted for the John Campbell, BSFA, Crawford, and Sidewise awards. Her debut novel THE MERI won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and she co-authored The New York Times best-selling STAR WARS LEGENDS: THE LAST JEDI.
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