Summer Mystery Short Stories - Page 2

I came for a story about record-breaking maple syrup and found a teenager overclocking the local forest ecosystem.

Melissa and Leo debate the futility of human legacy while a record-breaking heatwave melts the industrial district pavement.

Barb yanked the heavy steel handle. The pneumatic seal hissed. The shelves sat completely bare. Zero synthetic meat.

Ten thousand years after the world froze, a team of bioluminescent researchers finds a neon-orange plastic relic of pork.

A tactical team enters a bisected building where space and time are remapping into something unrecognizable and deadly.

A buried brass key leads Trudy from her grandmother's garden to a dark secret under a modern shopping plaza.

Mattie Saunders finds a glitching node in Winnipeg’s heat, uncovering a mystery hidden within the province’s new health budget.

Vicki tracks a memory thief through a humid summer, only to find the daughter he thought was dead.

The metal was cold, but the blue fungus growing across the bulkhead was breathing.