Mystery Stories

A Halloween 2022 Contest Entry
Salvador is a happy man. His girlfriend is super hot, he looks the part in his Betelgeuse outfit, they are invited to the fanciest Halloween party in town, and there’s a blue moon! What else could go wrong?

A grieving teen hears her late mother’s voice in their old house, but the comforting sound soon reveals a sinister truth. Lillie’s Journey blends dark fantasy and psychological horror as Lillie confronts an ancient entity feeding on memory and loss. As shadows close in, she must decide what’s real, what’s grief—and what’s hunting her. My first attempt at writing fiction. It's up in the air whether it will continue or not, that depends on feedback.

A Lexi's Investigations Story (2)
While taking revenge on a backstabbing friend, Lexi discovers a secret. It'll take secret cameras, stolen emails, and a seduction or two to find out what the girls of Chi Omicron sorority are up to.

A Personalia story
Part of the Personalia universe
Follow-on from "Detection", only this one is a romance.

The Cairo, Egypt, of the 1920s is a wide-open city for the varied sexual preferences of men seeking men or boys. Ali Selim Pasha is a notorious despoiler of older boys, and when fourteen-year-old handsome blond American fortune heir David Ames arrives to visit King Tut's tomb, Ali is only one of several men anxious and prepared to debauch him. Ali is the first one to snatch and imprison him, though, and to weave an atmosphere of want around the boy to prepare him for his first time.

A husband, Bob, discovers his wife, mother of their 3 teenage children, in bed with a family friend, being sent home after a work injury during the night shift. A keen jogger, after flooring his "friend" Bob goes on his usual long early morning run, much further than normal, and ends up in hospital. When he wakes up, no-one knows who he is (no ID or wallet in his running shorts) but remembers himself as Tommy, in his early 20s whose last memory is shopping for milk. Who is he?

A Lexi's Investigations Story (7)
There's a predator making rounds at the dating website: a guy who impregnates his dates without their knowledge. 20-year-old Lexi intends to catch the guy red-handed.

The ugliest girl has the most beautiful spirit. Is there a connection between the two?

Another story from beautiful Peachtree Corners GA. No sex so completely safe to read at work. Who knows what we will find this time. By the way, it is self edited by me and Microsoft word. Grammar Nazis need not bitch.

The wife finds her husband is missing, but things are not as they appear. When her past catches up to her, everything she thought she knew is about to be challenged. This is a 47,000 + word suspense thriller novel. This story follows the themes of redemption, self-growth, and healing. There are some sexually explicit scenes along the way. This is a journey of rising over circumstance and finding your own happiness. A special thanks to pepere and barneyr for their invaluable editing assistance.