Spring Mystery Short Stories - Page 2

Glenn slipped on the wet concrete, the drone's spotlight pinning him against the edge of the roof.

Jed found the bone in the soil, and suddenly the perfect tomatoes made a sickening kind of sense.

A student uncovers a web of tuition fraud while sprinting through Edmonton's rainy river valley during midterm season.

The graveyard soil split open, vomiting white roots and centuries of dust into the hot spring air.

Edmund risks everything to lead Sandy through the dying vents of the bunker toward a spring they cannot keep.

A retired librarian finds a hidden ledger that reveals the dark secrets behind her town's bright, fake new books.

Javi finds a hidden map on a discarded protest sign, leading him into a corporate conspiracy to destroy his park.

Simon digs for corruption under a cherry tree but finds a box of addresses that leads to something worse.

A detective destroys a child's inhaler to keep the spring festival looking perfect in a city called Neon-Eden.

Eli carves into the Easter ham, only to find his neural interface drowning in a flood of malicious code.

Leo digs in the cold spring mud while his friend Blue watches from a swing that never moves.

The neighborhood was quiet. No chaotic dream dumps, no static. Just a monolithic, suffocating gray wall.