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Mystery

The Last Witness

The rain hadn't stopped for three days. Detective Maren Holt stood at the window of her office, watching the city dissolve into grey streaks, and wondered if the truth was dissolving with it.

by Cynthia Zamora5 min

Science Fiction

Neon Requiem

In the year 2157, memories could be bought and sold like commodities. Lyra Chen was in the business of forgetting — for a price.

by Cynthia Zamora7 min

Romance

Letters Unsent

She found the letters in a shoebox at the back of his closet, three weeks after the funeral. Forty-seven letters, each one addressed to her, none of them ever sent.

by Cynthia Zamora8 min

Horror

The Librarian of Hollow Hill

The library had been closed for thirty years, but every night at midnight, a light appeared in the third-floor window. No one in town talked about it. No one in town dared.

by Cynthia Zamora9 min

Literary Fiction

The Cartographer's Daughter

My father drew maps of places that didn't exist. Not fantasy maps — he wasn't that kind of dreamer. He drew maps of places that should have existed but didn't, places the world had somehow forgotten to build.

by Cynthia Zamora8 min

Science Fiction

Signal and Noise

The radio telescope picked up the signal at 2:17 AM on a Wednesday. It was, by all accounts, the worst possible time to discover that humanity was not alone in the universe.

by Cynthia Zamora8 min

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