‘You were seen firing the murder weapon.’ Collin’s lips trembled as Detective Merryman invaded his personal space. ‘I know. But I don’t understand why I was there. One minute -’ ‘You were talking to some performer outside the theatre where you recently became a former employee at the hands of the deceased,’ interrupted Merryman. ‘You… Read more

Antonio lifted a fist near his face and gestured angrily toward Maria. His ball and socket joints groaned in protest as he shook it back and forth. ‘You interrupt my tomato watering, for what? A stupid locket!’ ‘You know it is precious to me.’ ‘My tomatoes are precious to me. I water them at the… Read more

Peggy distinguished a singular white fingerprint from within the black phone screen. ‘A singular, slightly smudged fingerprint. It suggests one person has used this phone and used one finger to touch the screen.’ ‘Impossible,’ called out Shanny Eyewitness. ‘Nothing is beyond possibility, Miss Eyewitness,’ replied Inspector Snoutwhiffer, who followed his words by pressing his pointer… Read more

‘We must make it right?’ Horris’s lip twitched. ‘The Shadow Man’s guarding the Deli door,’ Slugga replied, his voice quivering. ‘His spooky eyes may not see us, but he has ears like a Bat. A nose like a hound dog. He’ll hear my squeaky shoes a mile off.’ ‘And smell your horrible breath. We’ll cut… Read more

‘Three-hundred-year-old tapestries. Five-hundred-year-old medieval weaponry. Not even a glance. But this?’ Fredrick’s voice was exceedingly loud. Not that William could hear him. His jaw movements and the urgency in his signing gave it away. Wearing the overpriced headphones, like their classmates who wandered the museum with the narrator waffling in his ear, did not help.… Read more

      A minute! That is all it took for the culprit to execute their criminal act. Twenty-two anxious pairs of eyes saw my expression when I discovered the delinquent act. Their mouths were open, heads turning in unison like a pack of sideshow clown heads, attempting to mask their emotions and bluff my intuition.             … Read more

      All Janet wanted was for her father to remember who she was. Ten years she had spent searching for what could cure her father’s dementia. It was a tip from her friend, Monica, that led her to Shung Chi Chen’s ‘Mystical Wonders’ store. There she stood, waiting, breathing in the aromas of burning incense,… Read more

   ‘One item?’    ‘Quite peculiar, don’t you think?’      Click! Through the blinds of the apartment opposite Gemma and Grace, the silhouette of a man snapped a suitcase shut. The noise swirled in the breeze from his apartment to where the girls spied on him.      ‘The third time this week,’ said Gemma.     … Read more

Why did I agree to this dare? Was it the mystery, the rumours, or its intriguing backstory behind this famous house?         Creak! Creak! Creak! The prolonged, piercing racket swirled in the spine-chilling breeze each occasion my foot touched the weathered, fragile, moss-covered deck. I studied every inch of the outer structure of the mysterious… Read more