The Crime Writers’ Association

Short Story Dagger 2026

Shortlisted


SA Cosby

Split Your Silver Tongue

From: Birds, Strangers and Psychos

Edited by: Maxim Jakubowski

Published by: Bedford Square Publishers - No Exit Press

Judges’ comments

A tale of carefully controlled menace, ending in horror, as a cocky Lothario who thinks he’ll put the moves on a former girlfriend’s bereaved relative gets a lot more than he expects.

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