Trio: Three award-winning short stories
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Three short stories, 14 pages approx.
1. The State of Grace
When Johnson hears on the small town grapevine that Star intends to return to her abusive husband Wayne for the sake of the children, he gets drunk and threatens to kill her with a shotgun. [1,000 words]
2. A Happily Married Man
David goes off his schizophrenia medication and believes that an angel of the Lord has told him to eliminate the man for whom his wife Crystal Doreen left him. [1,000 words]
3. The Sunflowers
After more abuse at the hands of her husband Wayne, a unusual gardening episode makes Star decide to leave Wayne for good. [1,575 words]
Danielle de Valera
Until now, Danielle de Valera's been best known for her short stories, which have appeared in such diverse magazines as Penthouse, Aurealis and the Australian Women’s Weekly.All in all, she's had a chequered career. She’s worked as a botanist, an editor, a cataloguer for the Queensland Department of Primary Industries Library and the John Oxley Library, and on the main floor of Arnott’s biscuit factory.The manuscript of her 1st ever novel (then titled Love the People!) was placed 2nd to published author Hugh Atkinson's in the Australia-wide Xavier Society Literary Award for an unpublished novel - in those days, there was no Vogel Award for Unpublished Writers under 35. After that, she abandoned writing for 25 years to raise her children, whom she raised alone.She resumed writing in 1990, somewhat behind the eight-ball. With Louise Forster she won the Australia-New Zealand-wide Emma Darcy Award for Romance Manuscript of the Year 2000 with Found: One Lover.That first novel, Love the People! was shortlisted for the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2011, and for the UK’s Impress Prize in 2012, under the title A Few Brief Seasons. It's due out here in October 2021 under its final title Those Brisbane Romantics.A freelance manuscript assessor and fiction editor since 1992, she has won numerous awards for her gritty, streetwise short stories. MagnifiCat, a departure from this style, is her first published novel. It was followed in 2017 by Dropping Out: a tree-change novel in stories - to put it another way, a collection of linked short stories.For more information on this author, see Smashwords iInterview. There's lots there.About that NameDanielle de Valera’s father claimed he was related to the controversial Irish politician Eamon de Valera on his mother’s side. But he told some tall tales in his time, and this is sure to be one of them. Born Danielle Ellis, she found that this name was replicated many times on the web. In searching for another under which to write, she first tried her mother's maiden name, Doyle, but there were a number of those, too. What to do? Then she remembered her father’s story and chose it as her writing name. But she feels any real connection is unlikely.
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Trio - Danielle de Valera
Trio: Three award-winning short stories
Danielle de Valera
Copyright Danielle de Valera 2015
Smashwords Edition
Trio: Three award-winning short stories
1. The State of Grace: Winner of the Nicholas Shand-Beach Hotel short story competition, 1998.
2. A Happily Married Man: Winner of the Inaugural Nicholas Shand-Beach Hotel short story competition, 1997.
3. The Sunflowers: Winner of the Inaugural Annual Wellspring Women Writers’ competition, 1998.
Cover by C S McClellan
All rights reserved. No part may be reproduced in any form by any means without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.
If you would like to do any of the above, please seek permission first by contacting the author at danielledevalera@gmail.com
ISBN 978-0-9923311-7-7
Published in the United States by Old Tiger Books.
Smashwords edition
The State of Grace
was first published in Australia in the Byron Shire Echo, 22 September 1998. A Happily Married Man
was first published in the Byron Shire Echo, 9 September 1997 The Sunflowers
was first published in Australia in Wellspring, Vol. 2, Issue 9, Jan/Feb 1999, and later in the anthology From the Circle of Women, Vol. 1, 1999.
Table of Contents
Story start No. 1: The State of Grace