Mystery Stories

A Halloween 2022 Contest Entry
Student William McLennan decides to dress as a 'Wendy the Witch' for Halloween and go trick-or-treating the dark streets of the small college town of Haxa where students are treated with booze and mind altering substances rather than candy. Wendy has no idea what awaits her in the deserted house located on the edge of town but what happens to her in that desolate house will change her life forever.

Fourteen-year-old Austin, grabbed from a Singapore orphanage and sold to a Macau brothel, is bought by an American spy to help foment a coup in Thailand by being offered as an incentive to Thai generals being urged to stage a coup and who have a fetish for fourteen-year-old boys. Austin doesn't resist much in serving these plans until the stakes are pushed painfully high.

Includes Cover Illustration: Two young girls, while wilderness camping, are accosted by a religious zealot. Naked and shivering, they are forced to repent their sins. But it's not enough. Later, while they are sleeping, the man returns– with needle and thread.

When a bookstore owner goes from a reader and seller to a mystery sleuth, lines get blurred and consciences bruised. Now that's Snoopy!

Two young female soldiers and a young male soldier trapped on a moon inside a hover tank. What could possibly go wrong? Then again, what could possibly go right; very right?