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Dark Tales

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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The Cartographer's Cipher

Submitted to Contest #338

The book arrived on a Tuesday, which was fitting, as Tuesdays were the sort of day when I expected disappointments rather than revelations. I'd spent seventeen years as a rare book dealer in the Cotswold village of Ashford-on-Wye, a profession that sounds considerably more romantic than it actually is. Most days involved explaining to hopeful elderly women that their grandmother's Bible, while treasured, was not a first edition Gutenberg, and politely declining water-damaged Victorian novels that smelt of cats and crushed dreams. The package...

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The Fissure in the Frost: A Psychological Winter Mystery

Submitted to Contest #331

Mara told herself this was a break. The cabin was perfect—a sleek, modern box of cedar and glass tucked into the quiet mouth of a snow-dense forest. It was Emilia’s idea, of course. Emilia, hyperactive and relentlessly optimistic, believed a few lungfuls of fresh mountain air, far from the city’s grime and the memory of the difficult case Mara had just closed, would act as a psychic disinfectant.“Look at it, Mara,” Emilia had exclaimed on arrival, throwing open the glass doors to the cold. “No stress. No sirens. Just... stillness.” The small...

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