Danny has, over the years, written a great many short stories, including novellas and a few pieces of flash fiction (1,200 words or less). In addition, he's written just a few poems. Feel free to browse through these stories and download as many free copies as you'd like!
Flash Fiction
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-A Beacon in the Gloom-
A young couple gets lost while wandering the countryside and finds a cottage, which shields them from a darker reality. |
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-Flames Resound-
Read the panicked thoughts of the narrator as he struggles to understand what he thinks to be the end of the world. |
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-Mud Monster-
In this religious allegory, a man struggles to clean himself up on his own in order to be presentable to his father |
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-Protagonist-
Read the sometimes comical and sometimes existential thoughts of a man who realizes that he is nothing more than the protagonist of a short story. |
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-The Alamo Visage-
A man has a vision of an old face from American history as he struggles to understand the San Antonio celebration of Fiesta Texas. |
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-The Giant and the Leprechaun-
What happens when an Irishman and a Viking engage in a drinking contest at a pub? Nothing good, and yet the salvation of an island. |
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Flash Fiction contd.
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-Piercing the Darkness-
A family lost in the freezing darkness finds shelter in a place of light and warmth in this allegorical tale. |
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-The Passage of Falling Dust-
In this terrifying tale, the narrator makes his way down a dark, haunted road while the sun begins to sink and the forest comes alive. |
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-The Predator's Past-
A werewolf begins to remember who he was before the devil came, and how he came to be a monster. |
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-Titan Riders-
Another tale of fictional culture clash, a Greek man joins a Viking village as they sail to a mythical paradise on the back of a giant, enigmatic being. But their journey proves to be more treacherous than any of them expected. |
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-A Seasoned Story-
More an essay than a story, this work overlays the seasons of one's life with the elements of a story in a tragically beautiful way. |
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Flash Fiction contd.
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-The Man at the End of the Hall-
Trapped in a labyrinthine hotel and stalked by a form that grows closer and closer, this is as much a puzzle as it is an eerie tale. |
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-The Winter of Jarrow-
Two monks discuss their fears and faith as they contemplate another attack by ghostly giants from the North. |
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Short Stories
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-The Fallen Grim-
A trio of explorers are thrown millions of years forward in time to discover the ultimate fate of the souls of humanity. |
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-The Revenant Cave-
Two men from a mysterious international organization prepare to enter and destroy a cave which just might be a barrier between two universes. |
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-Flash of Crimson-
In this tale of cold war paranoia, the start of the war becomes a metaphor for the existential struggle we all face, from birth to death. |
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Poems
-Beyond the Bounds of Sky-
This fictional exploration of the universe covers an enormous variety of science fiction concepts, but ultimately retracts to our own Earth and its place in such a multifaceted cosmos.
This fictional exploration of the universe covers an enormous variety of science fiction concepts, but ultimately retracts to our own Earth and its place in such a multifaceted cosmos.
| Beyond the Bounds of Sky |
Novellas (longer than a short story but shorter than a novel)
-Kalamazoo-
A seaside utopia is besieged by a seemingly unstoppable army of gnomes led by a creature which used to live between realities. Enduring slavery and exile, the conquered people eventually redeem themselves in a war against the gnomes...and their hideous ruler.
A seaside utopia is besieged by a seemingly unstoppable army of gnomes led by a creature which used to live between realities. Enduring slavery and exile, the conquered people eventually redeem themselves in a war against the gnomes...and their hideous ruler.
| Kalamazoo |
