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I have 446 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 591539 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
Sacrifice
These are such slow days taken on a summer wing. Lazy and languid in breezes, hesitant as butterflies over the green rained grass and gentle nodding flowers. You are a flash of nudity
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- 1465 reads
A Flame into Being
A languid sigh and the luxury of motion as you rise up from stillness and silence shrugging off your redundant clothes all at once, like a cat washes off winter by a warming fire.
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- 1437 reads
The Waters of Time
A sudden falling into water. The sharp flashing splash that echoes into falling rain, and ripples that grow outwards from disturbance, like rumours of disaster. Then silence, except slow
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- 1451 reads
Bird Watching
Down by the stilled green water that offers no clue to depth, except that there is enough for some heartless bastard to drown six puppies in a sack, I wait, as I hear a dragonfly
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- 1419 reads
Mother Land
She grew eternal, like the sky, out of horizons and mists enclosing me like some blue cotton sheet of childhood, letting the sun shine through, while I invented new cities
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- 1391 reads