Mystery — A2 Short Stories

Six friends receive letters: on the seventh day, one of you dies. They hide together. They survive. Then they find a seventh letter. It was never about them. Learn Spanish A2.

Every Wednesday for twenty years, his father burned a letter without reading it aloud. Now his father is dead. Now the letters come for him. Now it is his turn to write. Learn Spanish A2.

Room three. Room five. No room four. But the space between the doors is too big. At night, a woman sings from inside the wall. She has waited a hundred years. Learn Spanish A2.

Ten friends in a locked house. By morning, only nine remain. The door is still locked from inside. They find him in a hidden basement. But there were two chairs. One was still warm. Learn Spanish A2.

The baker is dead. The bread is perfect. But his hands are clean. Someone else made that bread. Someone who finally learned his secret recipe. Last night. Learn Spanish A2.

Her son vanished ten years ago. Now he is back. Still seven years old. He says he was always here. She just could not see him. Then she looks at her own hands. Learn Spanish A2.

His dead uncle left him a box of money. But the bills are red. Everyone takes them. No one notices the color. The money remembers. When you die, it collects. Learn Spanish A2.

A fifth plate appears at dinner. They are only four. His parents say they have four children. He finds a hidden room. A diary. The house makes people forget their children. Learn Spanish A2.

His fingerprints are at the crime scene. But he was in another country. A medical study took his prints a year ago. Now someone with his exact hands is killing. And looking for him. Learn Spanish A2.

Every Christmas they set a plate for Uncle Raul. He insists there is no Uncle Raul. He says he is Marco. But Marco died twenty years ago. Marco was his son. Learn Spanish A2.

A woman across the street watches him every night. When he moves, she moves. Like a mirror. But he is a man. The house has been empty for ten years. Since Daniel died there. Learn Spanish A2.

His grandfather's last word: Garden. The family digs for weeks looking for buried money. Nothing. Then she remembers the neighbor's name: Martin Jardin Garcia. Garden was not a place. Learn Spanish A2.

The mirror shows things that aren't there. A red chair. Then a woman sitting in it. She opens her dead eyes and smiles. The mirror remembers. Learn Spanish A2.

She looks like his mother. But she uses the wrong hand. At 3am he hears his real mother crying from under the house. Now he must choose which one lives. Learn Spanish A2.

His father's grave has a twin. Same name. Same dates. A woman buried him three days ago. She said she was his only child. She said he had no son. Learn Spanish A2.

Her twin died at birth, they said. A photo shows two identical girls at her fifth birthday. But look in the mirror behind them. There's a third girl. Learn Spanish A2.

Three people in the wedding photo. Someone erased one face. Her mother's brother. He loved his sister the wrong way. He tried to stop the wedding. Learn Spanish A2.

Seven photos. Seven women. One for each day. His parents were spies. Now someone is watching him from the street. His father owed them. They want him to pay. Learn Spanish A2.

Three years empty. Fresh flowers on the table. A warm bed. An old man lives here. He loved her grandmother for sixty years. He cannot let her go. Learn Spanish A2.

He didn't die in an accident, said the librarian. Read these ten books. In the last one, a recording: her father's killers planning his death. Learn Spanish A2.

Three beds. He only asked for one. At 3am, something sleeps in the second. It leaves a note: See you tonight. He runs. It follows. The third bed waits. Learn Spanish A2.

Three coffee cups every morning. He lives alone. His wife is dead. But someone drinks from her cup. And the third cup waits twenty years for his son. Learn Spanish A2.

One key yesterday. Two keys today. She looks at her door. Two locks now. Someone entered while she slept. Someone installed a lock. A note: See you soon. Learn Spanish A2.

A dirty cup every morning. She lives alone. Behind the kitchen cabinet, a secret door. A man. He has lived there for four months. She never knew. Learn Spanish A2.

The wedding date is wrong. She was born before it. Her father is not her father. The man who raised her is his brother. The truth is buried in a box. Learn Spanish A2.

Each night, a voice from the well sings her grandmother's songs. Rosa fell in a hundred years ago. Grandmother kept her company. Now it is her turn. Learn Spanish A2.