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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
My Professor in Sorcery
A fantasy story against the Vampires.
Rated: E
~768 Words
Comedy, Horror/Scary, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Slippage
This was published in a local magazine a few years back also.
Rated: 18+
~623 Words
Psychology, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Reflected Horror Part 2: Dream Deception
Our man has found a way out... read part one if you haven't yet.
Rated: 13+
~6,721 Words
Horror/Scary, Dark, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
*Dollar* 150 GPs per review
The Storage Room Door
Sean has a brief hair-raising encounter down in the cellar.
Rated: E
~522 Words
Horror/Scary, Children's, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
*Dollar* 75 GPs per review
The Blue Wig (revised)
Who's messing round at school pulling all those pranks on everyone?
Rated: E
~3,758 Words
Mystery, Teen, Comedy
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 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
Have a Nice Day
This is an exert from my main story which i hope to get up here by the end of the year.
Rated: E
~1,208 Words
Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Whisper of Rose
a new fairytale awaits you with your dream man riding in a white unicorn.
Rated: 13+
~3,113 Words
Mystery, Fantasy, Romance/Love
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Alice and the Illusionist (Introduction)
A young girl falls in love with a mysterious illusionist from Wonderland.
Rated: 13+
~591 Words
Romance/Love, Fantasy, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Fateful Fortune
Misfortune awaits you behind a closed door... For an English class a few years ago.
Rated: 13+
~1,504 Words
Thriller/Suspense, Action/Adventure, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Red Ink
Written for Writer's Cramp 5/25
Rated: ASR
~1,055 Words
Contest Entry, Death, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
*Dollar* 1,500 GPs per review
ENDLESS REBUKE
Spiritual threats become physically fulfilled at last
Rated: E
~2,467 Words
Emotional, Tragedy, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Renaissance et Requiem
Two men are "reborn" back into the world and their first impulse is to...
Rated: 13+
~1,920 Words
War, Mystery, Death
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Slynokio
Don't read this or you'll have nightmares.
Rated: 18+
~1,075 Words
Fantasy, Dark, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Shoots of an Early Spring
A short winter and a hot, early Spring brings unexpected growth in long forgotten plants.
Rated: E
~434 Words
Nature, Supernatural, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
The Book
Flash Fiction for contest, use the word ebon somewhere
Rated: 18+
~424 Words
Occult, Mystery, Comedy
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Mistaken Identity
A good Samaritan mistakes one kind of evil for another. Winner Absolute Horror FF Contest
Rated: 13+
~445 Words
Horror/Scary, Supernatural, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Elemental Rnd 12 - Water
Birth of a water nymph.
Rated: E
~316 Words
Contest Entry, Environment, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
*Dollar* 750 GPs per review
Celia in Dreamland
Work-in-progress fantastical nonsense tale - would appreciate feedback on story so far!
Rated: 13+
~1,429 Words
Nonsense, Fantasy, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
The Campus Assignment
a surprising brief encounter with pre-ordained results
Rated: E
~1,622 Words
Dark, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Phalanx, The Story of a Border Collie
A loyal dog performs a final sacrifice for its troubled owner.
Rated: 18+
~2,214 Words
Dark, Relationship, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Hidden Lies
A death bed "confession 4; startles children
Rated: 13+
~2,243 Words
Drama, Mystery, Relationship
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
The Diary
This is a story about a girl and her diary
Rated: E
~775 Words
Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
the five people you meet in heaven
Abiut when someone dies the five people they would meet in heaven
Rated: E
~1,156 Words
Drama, Mystery, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
The Unseemly Figurine
Thomas buys a not-so-pretty figurine, but doesn't quite realize how special it is.
Rated: E
~1,175 Words
Supernatural, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Mastermind
One of my personal favorite works.
Rated: 13+
~1,109 Words
Mystery, Inspirational
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
The Grandfather Clock
A short writing about an old grandfather clock and an age old secret.
Rated: E
~1,188 Words
Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Letting Go
Surviving a plane crash... or not?
Rated: ASR
~3,032 Words
Animal, Mystery, Supernatural
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Dirty Job
How long can you keep on doing the job you hate?
Rated: E
~1,473 Words
Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Majesty
In this story of frustration and struggle nature can be a savior or the greatest enemy .
Rated: ASR
~1,418 Words
Mystery, Inspirational, Nature
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
obsessed
teacher becomes obsessed with student that is like his old best friend that may have died
Rated: E
~3 Words
Drama, Mystery, Romance/Love
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Deadly Dreams
There is danger in dreams but for who?
Rated: 13+
~1,688 Words
Entertainment, Mystery, Writing
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Brutal Encounters
A young boy must over come being beaten and fights back against his parents brutaly.
Rated: 13+
~922 Words
Thriller/Suspense, Mystery, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Stranger
A rainy night and a mysterious girl... (Written using Hemingway's Tips to Writing Well)
Rated: 13+
~704 Words
Drama, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Nightwalk
A young girls' imagination can run away with her. Or will it catch up to her.
Rated: E
~392 Words
Mystery, Action/Adventure
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
the strangers
strangers that meet under the strangest circumstances.
Rated: E
~901 Words
Death, Mystery, Fantasy
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Shortchanged
Eveyone but Geroge knows their worth and therefore aren't about to be shortchanged.
Rated: E
~1,353 Words
Mystery, Comedy, Friendship
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Winston Bennet
A dark tale of a man's struggle to direct all points of his life to the Big Finish.
Rated: 13+
~2,457 Words
Dark, Mystery, Tragedy
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Amazing Guy
a guy i met is absolutely amazing
Rated: E
~207 Words
Romance/Love, Relationship, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Sleight of Perception
Chptr 1: Two private investigators hunt down a man stalking twin sisters.
Rated: 13+
~4,149 Words
Mystery, Thriller/Suspense, Dark
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Fresh Mountain Air
A Lovecraft/Stoker inspired Gothic short story, about the hunt for a cure for syphilis.
Rated: E
~1,144 Words
Gothic, Fantasy, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Mischief at the Harvest Ball
Fairies get more than they planned on
Rated: E
~521 Words
Contest, Fantasy, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
Rain (an excerpt from part one)
A rough piece about a man with a dark history coming to terms with his life. With a twist.
Rated: 18+
~3,404 Words
Dark, Drama, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
*Dollar* 375 GPs per review
The Lottery Funeral
A reworking of another piece. I hope you find it has a STING in the tale.
Rated: E
~3,156 Words
Dark, Death, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
*Dollar* 75 GPs per review
The Kiss
At times its not worth bothering with the chic that you'll probably never get. *has f-bomb
Rated: 18+
~1,536 Words
Dark, Mystery, Romance/Love
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
*Dollar* 75 GPs per review
Hell to the King
He's no Teddy Bear, he's no hound dog. He's Elvis and he's out for bloody revenge.
Rated: 18+
~1,489 Words
Mystery, Thriller/Suspense, Dark
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
The Girl With No Name
A Weird and Wonderful Fairytale
Rated: E
~2,662 Words
Fantasy, Mystery, Supernatural
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
2012 - Covolution
Leonard Kain learns about the next level of evolution in a disastrous way.
Rated: 13+
~5,678 Words
Sci-fi, Mystery, Psychology
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
2012 - Covolution
Leonard Kain learns about the next level of evolution in a disastrous way.
Rated: 13+
~1,895 Words
Sci-fi, Mystery, Psychology
Type: Short Story
Updated 15 years ago
the dream
A short story about a kid who has a dream the comes to life
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Rated: E
~31 Words
Mystery, Emotional, Fantasy
Type: Short Story
Updated 16 years ago
*Dollar* 113 GPs per review
The programmer
A programmer is chosen ahead of time for next Thanksgiving.
Rated: 18+
~900 Words
Mystery, Horror/Scary
Type: Short Story
Updated 16 years ago
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