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I have 446 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 591653 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
Dawning
Now the dawn rises up like some new monster like some mythical beast old and new promise and threat. It begins and always will begin once again. There is nothing new.
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- 1489 reads
Shadow
I shall grow out of the ground at your feet like a shadow at sunrise. I shall protect your young growing grass from the searing of the scorching sun.
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- 2076 reads
Socks
“That was the time when you kept losing all your socks, can't you remember?” She seemed surprised that Martin could not remember such a momentous event in their marriage.
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- 2575 reads
Bare Rooms
We have nothing left to show each other except empty hands that can only make these futile gestures towards the boxes that now hold so much of our once-shared lives.
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Dead Leaves
The trees are bare, skeletal, their leaves toyed with by the wind floating free like loose pages torn from photograph albums. Leaves are memories that fall to the ground, around our feet
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- 2130 reads