Found 93 works tagged 'Mystery'.
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The Penitent
Published Oct 7, 2019 · 5,397 words (20 minutes) · 453 views
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A Catholic priest hears the confession of a penitent that awakens an old demon lurking in his soul.
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Carrying the News for a Dead Paperboy
Published Sep 18, 2019 · 6,784 words (25 minutes) · 143 views
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October and Halloween are just around the corner. You can feel it in the evening breeze that's a little cooler, and there's a tone shift in the rustling of leaves as they begin the change from summer green to autumn colors. And, of course, the ghosts are waking, as they do in this story. Their night to walk freely is coming.
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Old Growth
Published Sep 5, 2019 · 5,598 words (21 minutes) · 1 like · 311 views
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In 1997, I had a mystery novel out from Doubleday Canada, Downshift, that was ill-fated. The editor who wanted the book had to win a five-month argument with the marketing department. Then she left to go to another publisher three months before the novel’s release. Not good. Old Growth would have been the sequel.
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Six
Published Aug 9, 2019 · 6,029 words (22 minutes) · 140 views
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Anne has a strange feeling the mysterious lights in the sky have something to do with the number six she keeps seeing everywhere.
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The Importance of Being Kevin
Published Aug 4, 2019 · 4,747 words (18 minutes) · 144 views
Mystery Romance young adult teen gay lgbt theater
To keep his probation officer happy, Kevin joins a theater program for teenagers and falls hard for Peter Finn, the lead actor in the show. Peter returns Kevin’s feelings, and for the first time, Kevin learns what it means to be in love. Until a brutal attack shatters Kevin’s life and puts Peter in danger of going to jail for murder. You can buy the full novel at https://www.amazon.com/Importance-Being-Kevin-Steven-Harper-ebook/dp/B07RLQJ8G8
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Another Round
Published Jul 31, 2019 · 4,111 words (15 minutes) · 6 likes · 527 views
Nel is a bartender, so she’s heard more than her fair share of tall tales and sob stories. But one gloomy Tuesday evening, a patron’s tale of intrigue and murder sends her evening in an unusual direction. Author Charlotte Platt lives in the far north of Scotland, and posts speculative fiction and horror on Curious Fictions every fortnight.
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Lorenza's Bones
Published Jul 25, 2019 · 5,397 words (20 minutes) · 1 like · 57 views
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Lorenza, stripped of her humanity by a deeply magical fungal forest, must confront the wild magic that changed her after a series of murders which match the way she died.
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Tomorrow, the Sunset Will Be Blue
Published Jul 14, 2019 · 990 words (4 minutes) · 6 likes · 454 views
Literary Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Romance jeremy szal Science Fiction Romance nature science-fiction Love tragic first person exoplanets death sad ending Alien
It’s not for everyone, but Sola and Benn jumped at the chance for a new life at a remote research outpost—one with deadly metal dust in the air and hauntingly magical sunsets. But that may all change thanks to a secret Sola can't quite bring herself to face.
Author Jeremy Szal is the fiction editor for the Hugo-winning podcast StarShipSofa, as his work has appeared in Lightspeed, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and more.
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Coyote
Published Jul 4, 2019 · 3,501 words (13 minutes) · 39 views
Mystery Detective suspense crime
A half-Cherokee plainclothes detective in Baltimore has twelve hours to find a woman kidnapped by the Russian Mafia, or admit that he has once again been defeated by his spiritual nemesis, Coyote.
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Muscle
Published Jul 1, 2019 · 12,362 words (45 minutes) · 203 views
This story that ran in Alfred Hitchcock’s, fifteen years ago. “Muscle” is, in my biased opinion, pretty cute. I think it would make a good movie, with Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Joan Cusack in the cast – and Emma Thompson, if they could get her to play the lead.
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