Category: Short Stories

Dear Potential Reader,

I’d like to share with you my horror short story CLIP SHOW, in which a pair of parents hope to curb their young daughter’s habit of biting her fingernails.

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I intend to post one free short story every month. Check back every First Friday of the Month for a Free-to-read short story.

CLIP SHOW is the kind of story I have a lot of fun writing, as a parent, kids surprise you with their logic for doing something, and I find you have to counter with a similar approach to logic, you have to tell a story to get them to understand. You can’t just say, ‘this is bad for you.’ Because that only leads to a string of ‘why?’

Hope you enjoy.

All the best,

DAN JIRE

Dear Potential Reader,

I’d like to share with you my western short story MAD DOG DONALDSON. Which puts a former gunslinger in a precarious position when a familiar named outlaw enters the saloon.

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I intend to post one free short story every month. Check back every First Friday of the Month for a Free-to-read short story.

Some of these will make their way into print collections down the road. But MAD DOG DONALDSON is one of my oldest short stories. First published on the now defunct THEWESTERNONLINE.com, it was also the first short story I ever sold. I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of it ever since, so this might not be your first time reading it.

Hope you enjoy.

All the best,

DAN JIRE