Browsing Mystery Stories

She has always known she was different — shy, thoughtful, and torn between her Plebeian roots and whispers of an ancient secret that her family refuses to speak of. But when an unexpected tragedy thrusts her into the dangerous political world of the Early Roman Republic, she faces truths that will alter the course of her life — and Rome's history — forever.

This piece is inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", which is about the mental decline of an anonymous narrator who is confined to a nursery by her physician husband under the guise of "treatment" for her nervous depression. As her imprisonment continues, the narrator shows an increasing obsession with the yellow paper on the wall. She ends up liberating herself only when she pulls the paper off. My story is an imagined sequal to Gilman's work, exploring how the narrator haunts a new version of herself, emphasising the cyclicality of women's treatment in the medical sphere.

Rise of the Magi

In the frozen wastelands of Cyberia, where machines and flesh have fused into something neither living nor dead, a lone wanderer named Toska searches for meaning in a world that refuses to let him die. Haunted by fragmented memories and dreams that feel too human to be his own, he drifts through a landscape of blood-stained snow, rusting titans, and chimeric horrors borne from a tormented imagination.

When the room went dark, she heard her name a soft ,eerie whisper broke the silence calling out Wendy, Wendy can you hear me. Wendy's best friend Valerie is a gifted medium, renowned for her ability to connect the living with their departed loved ones. Tonight she is offering her unique talents to help Wendy and her family find solace. Surrounded by her family, the atmosphere is thick with emotion, each person holding their breath in anticipation. The only sound breaking the heavy silence is Valerie's voice as she channels Carl. Wendy's older brother, whose tragic murder in his apartment hangs over them like a dark cloud.

the main character, Clara, she seeks assistance from the lead detective of her city, for the murder of her sister. the story is set in a storm and Clara fights a unthinkable man.

I could see her, I could ACTUALLY SEE HER! What I have wanted all- what I deserved! All of that washed away by the tsunami of sound. That wretched beeping silenced my Katy. She was going to speak to me again. What would she have said? Will I ever know?

Over lunch at their favorite restaurant, Ira finally tells her best friend the truth about her perfect relationship—and the man she’ll never have to face again.