Retrocognition Stories

Time-travel. Visions. The past and future. We've seen it all before... or so we thought. Rin and Ali are detectives, roommates, best friends and partners in crime. 𝑹𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆-𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍. 𝑨𝒍𝒊 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐-𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. Solving criminal cases? Basically cheating with their cool powers. Together they're unstoppable... until they aren't. Until Ali get's a girlfriend. Someone who Rin... deeply despises. His disapproval of her runs much deeper than hate. 𝑭𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. While tangled in the chaos of love and hate, dead bodies keep turning up left and right. Bodies belonging to other cops, detectives and high-ranking officers. Cause of death? Hypoxia. No evidence is ever left behind, but the amount of officers dying is... suspicious. It's not an accident. Every day that goes by, the harder and harder the case is to solve, even with their powers. Sometimes it makes you wish you could just... pause time. Turns out, you can. Time-travel and visions aren't the only time-related powers in this universe. The killer has powers too, and he's taken an interest in the detectives. He's intrigued by their powers. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔.

He had always been there for her. But when she was five, He started to attack her. He started to turn her world upside down in events that she could never explain. Follow along through Olivia Suri Siobahn's life from ages five through twenty, as she grows on a particular entity called 'Slenderman' and how He tried to kill her, but never could...

In 1997 a young girl went into the local school and was never seen again. It was assumed that she had gone missing between her school and home. But, even after a six-month search, no body was found, crucial evidence was missing, and any leads in the case led to the same thing - a dead end. Now many years have passed and the case has been all but forgotten in the eyes of the town's few remaining residents. It was ever apparent by the many decrepit and abandoned buildings, however, that the town had suffered greatly by the disappearance. As a teenage girl passes the old abandoned schoolhouse she is drawn towards a strange noise coming from the enclosed schoolyard, only to find a cat cowering over the bloody corpse of a young woman. Who is this woman? Why was she murdered? And what is on the curious note tucked into the cat's collar? She isn't sure, but the teen is determined to find out. ••• My entry for this year's Mystery Party, hosted by EarnestyCommunity. I hope you enjoy, and I wish all the other participants well.