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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 about a month ago
Fairgrey the Furious
A Pirate story started for a contest. Deadline long passed, but will finish one day ...
Rated: 13+
~1,536 Words
Action/Adventure, Mystery, Drama
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
No Bad Deed
A supernatural short story, slight but hopefully effective!
Rated: E
~1,700 Words
Supernatural, Horror/Scary, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Birds of a Feather
A girl caring for exotic birds stumbles upon a horrifying secret.
Rated: 13+
~1,310 Words
Horror/Scary, Mystery, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
A Shot in the Dark.
A "tour" in an open house goes horribly wrong.
Rated: 18+
~2,430 Words
Detective, Crime/Gangster, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Missing, Part 1
A husband and father goes missing.
Rated: E
~673 Words
Mystery, Detective
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 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
The Marble Welcome
A story based on an abandoned church retreat near my school.There were people afoot. :)
Rated: E
~399 Words
Mystery, Supernatural, Death
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
The Old Morton Factory
Our intrepid reporter solves a mystery.
Rated: E
~271 Words
Contest, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
The Package
A short story written from a writing prompt on here.
Rated: ASR
~353 Words
Mystery, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
The Other SIde
Aaron dives into a deep pool, to find another world ...
Rated: 13+
~1,125 Words
Mystery, Action/Adventure, Fantasy
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Lucky Numbers
A winning lottery ticket doesn't necessarily mean riches
Rated: E
~1,525 Words
Entertainment, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Come Back Mommy
A six-year-old girl finds herself alone in a house that's making strange noises.
Rated: ASR
~757 Words
Contest Entry, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Anger Management
A woman's exit from the hospital goes awry.
Rated: ASR
~808 Words
Mystery, Thriller/Suspense, Contest Entry
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
A Night with the King
Two friends find themselves stranded. A story using titles from Stephen King.
Rated: 18+
~2,259 Words
Horror/Scary, Mystery, Supernatural
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Death at Rosewood Mansion
Excerpt from a gossip column about the death of a famous director....
Rated: 13+
~532 Words
Drama, Death, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Aristotle, Private Eye
A silly attempt to blend genres. ..
Rated: 13+
~1,735 Words
Mystery, Comedy, Mythology
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
*Dollar* 750 GPs per review
Pasina: Then and Now
What happened to the planet of Pasina. You have to read the story to find that out.
Rated: 18+
~11,158 Words
Sci-fi, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Meeting an Angel
A man wakes in a strange environment. He has no idea where he is, or even who he is.
Rated: 18+
~936 Words
Supernatural, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
*Dollar* 225 GPs per review
Touching the Hand of Fate (2nd Place)
Kara's life was full of activity, and deadlines, but it wasn't always so.
Rated: E
~976 Words
Cultural, Career, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Into The Woods
a flash fiction writing.
Rated: E
~256 Words
Death, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
A Collie to Die For
Sam Spayed, basset detective is on the case.
Rated: E
~883 Words
Mystery, Animal, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Sisters
A girl finds out that her best friend isn’t what she appeared to be.
Rated: ASR
~1,704 Words
Mystery, Dark, Contest Entry
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
A Boy Searching for Light
A short story that looks at a person's way of searching for what their meaning of life is
Rated: E
~526 Words
Philosophy, Mystery, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
The Elevator
Think twice before you dismiss the person standing too close to you on the elevator...
Rated: ASR
~570 Words
Horror/Scary, Mystery, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 7 years ago
Indigo Hollow
A remote place.
Rated: E
~404 Words
Fantasy, Mystery, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
The detective
A short story about a detective trying to find a serial killer
Rated: E
~621 Words
Detective, Mystery, Thriller/Suspense
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
I wonder where my wife is
short short about a man missing his wife and a horrid smell from the basement.
Rated: E
~377 Words
Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
*Dollar* 150 GPs per review
Inhaled Reveries
A Detective is sent off-world to solve a murder, but something haunts his dreams.
Rated: E
~6,064 Words
Sci-fi, Mystery, Action/Adventure
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
When Time Stands Still
Just a little something I've started. Not yet finished. opinions appreciated.
Rated: 13+
~1,824 Words
Mystery, Crime/Gangster, Writing
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
When Time Stands Still (2)
This isn't really a second chapter, just a second blurb of writing.
Rated: 13+
~289 Words
Mystery, Crime/Gangster, Writing
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Trash Day
Taking a mundane task like taking out the trash and adding a bit of mystery/intrigue to it
Rated: E
~314 Words
Writing, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Rated: E
~292 Words
Mystery, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
TIME SLIP
Dave finds that the episodes he has are more than they appear to be..
Rated: E
~5,577 Words
Sci-fi, Mystery, Supernatural
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
The Last Patient
He cursed the day Betsy came into their lives.
Rated: 18+
~1,420 Words
Horror/Scary, Mystery, Death
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
By the Book
Sophia is planning to get married but something is terribly wrong.
Rated: 13+
~2,218 Words
Romance/Love, Mystery, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Love at oasis
Was it an oasis or a mirage ?
Rated: E
~306 Words
Romance/Love, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Light
The Sun is dark, and no one knows why
Rated: E
~542 Words
Sci-fi, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Bardstown Mystery
A gun and box of money were unearthed...what on earth does it mean?
Rated: 13+
~525 Words
Contest Entry, Crime/Gangster, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Emily, as only he saw her
The mystery of one photographer's art answered in expansion by a poet
Rated: 18+
~1,061 Words
Relationship, Romance/Love, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Camera
A mysterious camera appears and holds a shocking discovery...
Rated: E
~166 Words
Mystery, Supernatural, Other
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
The Island
A young couple desperately tries to cling to their fraying sanity and delusions.
Rated: 13+
~2,279 Words
Mystery, Drama, Relationship
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Mirror I Swear
My contest entry for the Dialogue 500. Prompt: A Dialogue Between You And Your Mirror.
Rated: ASR
~506 Words
Contest Entry, Mystery, Psychology
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Mask of the Blue Snitch
How far is one brother willing to go to stop a notorious cyberbully's next attack?
Rated: E
~3,569 Words
Dark, Mystery, Young Adult
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Wolf
The wild wolf that is a mystery.
Rated: E
~221 Words
Animal, Mystery, Ghost
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
The Haunted Fair of Devil's walk
A girl becomes trapped in a place which has a lot of bad history!
Rated: 13+
~576 Words
Dark, Mystery, Horror/Scary
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Black Witch Kidnapper Beware
A brief tale of the great horror legend of the night,The Black Witch Kidnapper.
Rated: 13+
~381 Words
Gothic, Mystery, Dark
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Robert The Haunted Doll
Based on a True story in Key West Florida
Rated: E
~420 Words
Ghost, Horror/Scary, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Curse of a Single Boy part 2
Melody Abernathy and her friends attempt to solve the mystery of the new neighbor
Rated: E
~12,774 Words
Mystery, Friendship
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
The Curse of a Single Boy
Melody Abernathy and her friends are caught up in the mystery of a new neighbor.
Rated: E
~14,007 Words
Mystery, Friendship
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Her Last Creation
A short fiction based on a true character.
Rated: E
~4,533 Words
Cultural, Foreign, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
Mexican Standoff
Newbies Academy Challenge; 500 words from the POV of two characters/Twisted Tales Contest
Rated: ASR
~379 Words
Contest Entry, Thriller/Suspense, Mystery
Type: Short Story
Updated 8 years ago
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