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I have 446 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 591807 times
and 85 of my stories have been cherry picked.
David Hadley
David Hadley lives in the Black Country, West Midlands, UK.
His writing has been published in several magazines in the UK and US. Many of his pieces have been Cherry-picked by the editors at abctales.com, including some selected as Story of the Week. (http://www.abctales.com/user/38640).
His books are available here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B005DFN62Q (UK) or here: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005DFN62Q (US).
My stories
Dawn Chorus
I too could rise up hopeful, like the dawning sun. I too could start here at the day's beginning hour. I too could burn away the shadows, hiding mists,
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- 1080 reads
Distant lands
I knew you then, you had secrets and such dark hair that kept you hidden like some eastern veiled bride-to-be floating though our more ordinary days with the scent of exotic unguents
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Something about Flowers
Down there in the dawning light she stands like a frozen gesture: a shadow frozen on the ground until she recalls the necessary motion and turns towards the morning.
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A Possibility of Holding
Out where there are dreams of distances and silences I dare to reach towards your nakedness with hands that can only do so little. I never learnt to make things
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The Bride
She was there and dressed in white I thought, for a time, she could be a bride, my bride. But she is not there for weddings she is no-one's bride. She will not be tamed.
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- 1324 reads