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by Susan Tuttle (Author)
These three award-winning short stories were written in 2008, 2009, and 2013 as entries for the annual Dead Bird Competition, a short story contest run by the San Joaquin Valley Chapter of Sisters in Crime (SinC). The theme changes each year: for The Telltale Death we had to use an object around which to revolve the story; for Beef Killington, we had to evoke a sense of the valley; for Hydro-synth the theme was water rights and wrongs. Each of these stories won awards in the competition, from best story from a first-time entrant to the Most Murderous Use of Water award. The first two stories, entered in the Central Valley Writer's Workshop competition a year later (2010), tied for first place. From a ringing telephone to a cooking competition to mummified bodies in the desert, these eerie Central Valley stories are sure to keep you awake at night. Enjoy!
Author Biography
Susan Tuttle is a freelance editor, writing teacher and the slightly twisted, award-winning author of the suspense novels Tangled Webs, Sins of the Past, Proof of Identity, Piece By Piece and A Matter of Identity. Her critically acclaimed Write It Right: Exercises to Unlock the Writer in Everyone workbook series for fiction and creative nonfiction is based on her classes. Susan is past president of SLO NightWriters and the Central Coast Chapter of Sisters in Crime, and is presently the newsletter editor for both organizations. She lives on the Central Coast of California with her imaginary cat in a house filled with her (mostly unfinished) handmade quilts and (mostly finished) knitted scarves. Find her on LinkedIn, Facebook (susanwriter), Twitter (stuttlewriter), and follow her writing blog (Write Over the Hump) at www.SusanTuttleWrites.com.
