Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 6) | Contents The winter days are short, and the way back home was already getting dark. The winter solstice had passed, so the days should be getting longer, but it didn’t feel like it at all. On the way back, we walked side by side. We

Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 5) | Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 7) The “appraisal meeting” was decided for Monday after school. After classes ended, the school building began to be enveloped in the noise of students leaving and doing club activities. The sounds of music clubs and the

Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 4) | Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 6) Before sleeping, I briefly summarized my conversation with Kengo and sent a message to Osanai-san from my mobile phone. When I woke up the next morning, I received a concise reply from Osanai-san. “Art museum? Library?”

Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 3) | Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 5) It was a bit of a shame that we had to cut our meeting at the family restaurant short. We agreed that it was probably not a good idea to be out past ten o’clock, even

Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 1) | Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 3) It was a gray painting. The top of the painting is painted gray, probably depicting heavy, overcast clouds. The bottom is painted gray as well, likely representing a dark earth. At the boundary between the sky

Full Text Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 2) The beginning of a mystery is a newspaper. The first is a newspaper, the next is also a newspaper, and the next one too, and then the next one would be a cookie. Which means this. One winter day, after returning from school, I