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Short Stories - By Genre: Mystery
in the "Mystery" genre

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The Music Box
Honorable Mention Winner in the 75th Writer's Digest Competition.
Rated: 18+
~2,572 Words
Mystery, Horror/Scary, Mythology
Type: Short Story
Updated 2 months ago
True Justice
Cop must find person from his past thought dead. 1st place winner in a short story contest
Rated: 18+
~6,929 Words
Crime/Gangster, Mystery, Supernatural
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 225 GPs per review
The Stuffed Fox
A family secret not quite in the closet!
Rated: E
~233 Words
Contest Entry, Family, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Faces
A tragic tale of insanity and murder.
Rated: 13+
~1,281 Words
Horror/Scary, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Girl In The White Dress
story about a ghost; a little girl from the 1900's who was seen in an old aprtment house
Rated: E
~503 Words
Ghost, Mystery, Young Adult
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Help
A story about ... what? A mystery.
Rated: E
~300 Words
Political, Mystery, Technology
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
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The Atlantis Discovery
Framed for a grisly crime, Jericho must find Atlantis, save the girl and clear his name.
Rated: 18+
3 Entries
Action/Adventure, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Type: Novel
Updated 18 years ago
*Dollar* 75 GPs per review
Soul Keepers
When things are not what they seem, will you see what is, or what should be?
Rated: 18+
~3,783 Words
Fantasy, Dark, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 123 GPs per review
Murder Under The Big Top
A detective tries to get to the bottom of things. (Flash Fiction)
Rated: 13+
~327 Words
Comedy, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 75 GPs per review
Veiled in Snow
A man looking for his brother-in-law' ;s killer.
Rated: 13+
~2,036 Words
Mystery, Crime/Gangster
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Kidnapped!
A little girl taken from family and returned 8 years later.
Rated: E
~294 Words
Crime/Gangster, Adult, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Checkmate
A chat between two men soon becomes sinister as ulterior motives come into play.
Rated: E
~1,245 Words
Thriller/Suspense, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Rated: E
~917 Words
Mystery, Crime/Gangster, Animal
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Ten Wishes for a Wedding (Contest)
It's Marianne's wedding day, but how she got there is a bit suspicious.
Rated: E
~780 Words
Contest Entry, Fantasy, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Paper World.
Is GOD the only true relation of the world? Find out.
Rated: E
~102 Words
Emotional, Relationship, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 113 GPs per review
Missing. Chapter 2
Part 2 of the story.
Rated: E
~447 Words
Mystery, Family, Parenting
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 90 GPs per review
Missing. Chapter 1
The beginning of an epic search .
Rated: E
~521 Words
Family, Mystery, Parenting
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
The Next Victim
LAPD detective rescues her friend in Tahiti from a golddigger's snare
Rated: 13+
~3,133 Words
Mystery, Cultural, Friendship
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
The Shore
At the end of one place and the beginning of another
Rated: E
~631 Words
Mystery, Romance/Love, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 600 GPs per review
The Last Cynthia
Dimension hopping explorer Tinker has a problem. He's in love.
Rated: ASR
~518 Words
Romance/Love, Sci-fi, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 150 GPs per review
Coming Home - Chapter 3
Mandy shares her history with Ryan
Rated: 13+
~1,766 Words
Romance/Love, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
A Star
Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it.
Rated: 13+
~4,245 Words
Supernatural, Mystery, Horror/Scary
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Murder Through The Mirror
A story of a murder and the link between two worlds through mirrors.
Rated: E
~1,574 Words
Mystery, Contest Entry, Crime/Gangster
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
The White Hall
A large white room with only one light, and at the end lays a dreadful darkness.
Rated: 18+
~1,563 Words
Action/Adventure, Mystery, Sci-fi
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Unwanted Advice
Just a quick 1st draft of a story I was working with.
Rated: E
~727 Words
Mystery, Technology, Dark
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
CHRISTINA
Christina and her odd world. p.s. its my assignment for English. :)
Rated: E
~625 Words
Experience, Mystery, Psychology
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 75 GPs per review
The Trial
This is from an exercise in a creative writing book i'm wading through.
Rated: 13+
~387 Words
Dark, Religious, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
"A Gift From GAEA"
One of Ral's adventures into "inner space." Before his quest to find The Lake.
Rated: E
~2,258 Words
Entertainment, Spiritual, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
The Tower
A very short story about a slightly mysterious holiday written when I was about 17.
Rated: E
~1,333 Words
Holiday, Mystery, Travel
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 75 GPs per review
At What Price?
Jed, an installer, comes to an odd home owned by an even stranger man.
Rated: E
~339 Words
Folklore, Fantasy, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Libroman Mystery
first short story, tell me what ya think please
Rated: E
~1,896 Words
Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
pretty bad day
Brian and his wife move to a new town to start their new life with each other untill.....
Rated: 13+
~807 Words
Contest Entry, Drama, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Nighttime Throwaways
Strange events witnessed at night
Rated: E
~343 Words
Horror/Scary, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
The Web of Life
A story about the web of life that lives secretly among us until some event exposes it.
Rated: 13+
~899 Words
Mystery, Drama
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 75 GPs per review
In The Middle?
A nice couple lost in the road, someone following them! Find out in this exciting story!
Rated: 13+
~1,655 Words
Thriller/Suspense, Horror/Scary, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
I Think I'm Paranoid
Janet is a cautious woman. Maybe too cautious?
Rated: 13+
~1,723 Words
Horror/Scary, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Badass Boy vs. Badass Girl 8
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Rated: 13+
~893 Words
Comedy, Mystery, Young Adult
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Fowl Play, a Case of Chicken Murder.
Early today I had fourteen chickens. After returning from the store, 13 were left alive
Rated: E
~390 Words
Animal, Death, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
The Red Letter
A boy gets a mysterious letter that will determine his fate!
Rated: E
~973 Words
Mystery, Emotional, Arts
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 75 GPs per review
The True Story of Macbeth
An alternate version of Macbeth that isn't supposed to follow the original story closely.
Rated: E
~3,019 Words
Mystery, Fantasy, Tragedy
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Welcome Home
A woman inherits the house of her great aunt and discovers more than she bargained for.
Rated: 13+
~1,334 Words
Horror/Scary, Mystery, Occult
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Millys Place
A ghost story.
Rated: 13+
~4,181 Words
Fantasy, Ghost, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Whats what?
Is this or is it not?
Rated: 13+
~118 Words
Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
*Dollar* 75 GPs per review
Fortuitous Occurences
Astronauts on Mars discover a huge cache of gold. How to get it back home...
Rated: E
~334 Words
Mystery, Action/Adventure, Satire
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
The adventure of the numbered cross
An orthodox detective story. The detective is called 'RP'. Genre-Mystery/Acti on/Detective
Rated: E
~5,521 Words
Detective, Mystery, Action/Adventure
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Shards of Glass
Story I wrote in my creative writing class
Rated: E
~2,343 Words
Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Epilogue
A short story about commitment to yourself and how other people help you to do that
Rated: ASR
~2,457 Words
Mystery, Psychology, Detective
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
...Of Events
A police detective looks into a series of unsolved murders as a tribute to his colleague.
Rated: E
~275 Words
Detective, Crime/Gangster, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Cursed Shadows
The moon shines down on the forest.Something moves in the shadows and the curse began.....
Rated: E
~226 Words
Dark, Ghost, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Outside My Window
Outside the window grows a large brown tree. Inside the room is a girl. She is terrified.
Rated: E
~494 Words
Dark, Horror/Scary, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Pandora's Box
A story about a child, a merchant, and a box said to grant one's greatest desire.
Rated: 13+
~279 Words
Mystery, Thriller/Suspense, Drama
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
Home
The Nightmare Contest
Rated: E
~246 Words
Contest Entry, Dark, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 14 years ago
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