Dani's Shorts

By Dani J Caile

'Dani's Shorts' is a collection of 500 word short stories based on the elements given in the Iron Writer Challenge. These 28 short stories show a range of Dani's favourite writing styles, including pair dialogues, internal thoughts and sardonic parodies.

If you are 'up to the Challenge', then go to...
http://theironwriter.com/

"I hope you find the stories creative, serious, humorous, filled with pointless nonsense and poignant emotions. I hope you get angry, I hope you laugh, I hope you cry. I hope you share this work with everyone you know. Isn’t that what good writing is for?"

B Y Rogers (The Iron Writer Challenge)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dani J Caile
• Release date: Aug 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301284986

Dani J Caile

I've been writing for years, but now I've found my voice and style. I hope you like it as much as everyone else who has read it. :-)

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Dani's Shorts

(A collection of short stories based on the elements from The Iron Writer Challenge)

Volume 1

by

Dani J Caile

Foreword by Brian Y Rogers

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Dani's Shorts

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Copyright © Dani J Caile 2013

Table of Contents

Foreword by Brian Y Rogers

Preface / Acknowledgement

1 - Bob the tree

2 - Eradication

3 - Good wins out?

4 - This is a Parody

5 - The Five Challenges

6 - Hunt on the beach

7 - On the Farm

8 - Who's crazy now?

9 - Taxi!

10 - My two glassfish (RIP)

11 - Dung

12 - I left

13 - Yes, dear

14 - Sergei's Chaika

15 - Whoops

16 - No surfing on this beach

17 - The Order

18 - Campers

19 - That boy's trouble

20 - A traveller's tale of a terribly strange bet

21 - Just one tap

22 - In confidence

23 - Cynthia the Robot

24 - Get Rich Quick?

25 - A Day at the Well with Sniff and Grint

26 - The Big Secret

Summer Solstice Open Elimination Round - Old Boy Network

Summer Solstice Open Final - Monkey Business

List of elements for Challenges 1-26 and the Summer Solstice Open

Other work by Dani J Caile

Foreword by Brian Y Rogers

The recent birth of The Iron Writer is curious and inspirational, to me at least. Its growth has been surprising certainly but I feel I am not completely at fault. I am not that good.

The Iron Writer began in the winter of 2013. It started when I was invited by a fellow author to participate in a blog tour. I agreed to help her. I was expecting the ubiquitous Proust Questionnaire but was surprised and somewhat bewildered when asked to write a five hundred word flash fiction piece using four elements or prompts. I was given six weeks to complete the story. At the time, I had never heard of flash fiction.

A day later, after foolishly committing to the request, I lay in my bed unable to sleep while I struggled with the story. The next day, I did some quick research on one of the elements and in that process, Ida, my ancient and precious muse (yes, she does exist), flew by and dropped the story in my lap before scampering off to wherever she lives. I hurriedly wrote the story before I lost it and six hours later I was finished, including the editing.

I emailed the story off and then sat at the computer reading the story. I was surprised at what I had written in so short a time and inspired with the experience. Just what had happened? Several years before, I had written the first draft of my novel in less than ten days. The experience was exactly the same. When I wrote that tome, I never suspected I could ever write a short story, let alone a flash fiction piece. Yet, just a few months afterwards, I wrote my first short. I have since written six more shorts, with several other shorts and novels buried in the imagination of my computer.

As I read and re-read the flash piece, I learned something about how I write, how my creativity works. Writing flash fiction is more than writing a short, short story and it is the same as writing scenes in a novel. If it is done correctly, it is done very quickly. The creativity is awakened and in a flash the story is there. It is sort of like having sex during a car accident. BOOM! It is scary and almost orgasmic at the same time. And when you are smoking the proverbial cigarette afterwards, there is something extremely