Dani J Caile's Universe Series

'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)

This is perhaps the last collection of Iron Writer Challenge Short Story Fiction I will publish. Due to life and other writing related issues, I wasn't able to write the challenges out every week, though to my credit, I never missed a Weekend Quickie – who would? This collection includes all the Weekend Quickies and challenges I did write up, from Challenge 131/Weekend Quickie 139 onwards, all the way to the 2016 Annual Final (Challenge 179, October 2016). A list of elements for all challenges and WQs are listed at the end of this collection for those wishing to 'have a go'. I hope you enjoy what you read – whether it's in this collection… or some other book…

Dull Guido has kept himself out of trouble (and life) for 34 years 5 months and 14 days, only to die on the night before he finally has his first big adventure, a world cruise. Graham Reader, the Grim Reaper, tries to help him navigate the world 'up above', only for Guido to find out that there are worse things than death.

Yes, it's Volume 2 of TIW shorts! Yet another collection of totally pointless exactly 500 and exactly 200 word nonsense to entertain you while doing whatever you do when reading. Here are my own personal takes on the second 6 months of the Iron Writer Challenge, including Challenges, Weekend Quickies, Grudge Matches and Solstice Opens - plus an excerpt of 'How to' killing Brian (Cannibalising Brian) and a slice from the first ever Relays. I hope you enjoy these short snippets just as much as you enjoyed Volume 1. Thanks again to Brian and all the other Iron Writers for making The Iron Writers phenomenon the success that it already is.

It’s Volume 4 of TIW shorts! The fourth collection and possibly the last of totally pointless exactly 500 Challenge and exactly 200 Weekend Quickie flash fiction stories/scenes word nonsense (plus a few specials, relays, newsflashes from the TIW blog and collaborations) to entertain you while doing whatever you do when reading. For myself, it was a long and tricky half year in The Iron Writer. Through troubles and difficulties, there was always the TIW Challenge waiting for me. I hope you enjoy these short snippets just as much as I enjoyed writing them, and thanks again to Brian and all the other Iron Writers for allowing me into their community...I wouldn’t.

Wow, it's already Volume 3 of TIW shorts! The third collection of totally pointless exactly 500 Challenge and exactly 200 Weekend Quickie word nonsense (plus a few collaborations and extra TIW things) to entertain you while doing whatever you do when reading. For myself, it was a long and exciting half year in The Iron Writer. It has become a part of my life now, this TIW phenomenon, every week waiting for the next group of elements to hit the site and dwelling on the story which could link them all together in the style of my choice. It's thanks to this challenge that I can say I never suffer from writer's block - touch wood. In this third volume, I have also included some collaborations and TIW ‘experiments’, such as the Genre Mash Up from Miranda Hawley and impromptu relays which mainly involve a new and highly talented young TIW writer, Mathew W. Weaver , complete in a suit of armour – he is the Iron Writer Protection Program, his identity is a secret. Other writers include Neal Sayatovich, Jordan Bel , and Tony Jaeger. I'd like to thank these writers for writing their words and allowing me to publish them. In mentioning, I also cut the 10 worder 4 element challenge story "He tutted as she stood there in a mini skirt." (Challenge 45) down to a 'zhong', a form made famous by Ernest Hemingway, "He tutted as she smiled, naked." To finish, in Volume 2, I separated the Weekly Challenges from the Weekend Quickies though now I see that some continuity of ideas was lost and so everything in Volume 3 is in chronological order to show the development...if there was one. I hope you enjoy these short snippets just as much as I enjoyed writing them, and thanks again to Brian and all the other Iron Writers for allowing me into their community...I wouldn’t. If you are 'up to the Challenge', then go to... The Iron Writer dot com

Written in celebration of 150 years of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Alice falls into a world of mad computer programs when she doesn’t do her Mathematics homework. Will she find her way back? Will she find her Bunny? Or will the Ultimate Viruses of Power have their way?

Carter and his family move to a new city with a promise of clean skies, peaceful neighborhoods and good jobs. All he cares about is surviving school and having fun on his Xbox9. Until one day things go a little weird...

It’s Volume 5 of TIW Flash fiction shorts...! Everyone, run for the hills! Another fine collection of Iron Writer Flash fiction stories by Dani J Caile, all based on the weekly challenges and elements from the Iron Writer. Turn the pages, if you dare!

Okay, so Dani’s Shorts 7 is here! I occasionally submitted into an Iron Writer Challenge this year (2017) and won the Spring Equinox Final, and then the Annual Championship! I also couldn’t stop myself from doing the Weekend Quickies, they were just too addictive. Then there was the Writers Games 2017 but I missed the cut, so I wrote one of the flash fiction pieces, just to see where I’d place. About halfway. I’ve included the short piece here, see what you think. And another regular short story series started over at one Iron Writer’s Facebook page, and I also decided to join in with that one. So, this little collection of shorts is a combination of all three; challenges, quickies and ‘Quick-E’s.

Yet another collection of Dani J. Caile short stories... not again! And a few other stories too. The Flash Fiction stories were created with elements from the Iron Writer Weekly Challenge and More Odds Than Ends. I have also included some short stories written in the same period, including ‘A Celebration of Thanksgiving’, ‘The ''other evidence that does not support a criminal charge"’, ‘Goose’, and ‘The Book that Can’t be Read’.

In the sleepy village of Fickleton, there is but one obsession, a young Venus named Evelyn Sands, adored, loved, cherished. But then, one day she is taken from them...