`` Flamingo Fatality '' won the Great Manhattan Mysteries Conclave Short Story Anthology Contest in 2005 , and her 2005 short story `` Lucky Bear '' was first in the Storyteller Magazine Flash Fiction Contest . `` Flamingo Fatality '' won the Great Manhattan Mystery Conclave Short Story Anthology Contest in 2005 , and her 2005 short story `` Lucky Bear '' placed first in the Storyteller Magazine Flash Fiction Contest .