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I have 446 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 593860 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
Ritual
Are these the hands that shaped these times from soil, and took each precious stone down to the sea to wash it, bring it back, arrange like shapes that will become significant and pure?
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Dreaming of Summer
"I was fast asleep," she said. "I dreamt of summer. But all we have here are these long cold dark winters where no fire can warm our lives, to melt this ice sheet that covers it all,
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- 1441 reads
Seasons (Naga-Uta*)
Then, when the rain stops and you step outside, to walk once again, barefoot over the wet grass, like that long lost girl-woman of innocent summer sex, you remember how
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- 1990 reads
Flowers
These flowers were forgotten left in the waterless vase until they turned brittle brown, became bare dry sticks; leaves fallen, petals long lost. Flowers in memory only.
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- 1522 reads
Salvation
We do not need to wait for signs these days, we’ve seen the stars are distant, further still than distance we can know and reach out for. They are no longer watchers over us
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- 1868 reads