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I have 446 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 591593 times and 85 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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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

Cherry

Images

Memory takes motion and freezes it. Each moment captured and held, there, a picture on the gallery wall. Here's where those moments will all end. Here's the last picture, where she turns

Ambition

All those bodies left in fields blood seeping, soaking deep like rain into the thirsty ground. I thought I knew then. I thought, I believed I was there to wear the holy crown,

Dark Shadows

Dreams are far more dangerous than this. All I have is a small moment still in the quiet heart of the night, woken suddenly by something strange that takes shape out of a dream

Our Lives

I can look into her, or any woman's eyes and see our lives together. All the days have candle-lit slow dinners with soft talk. The barefoot moonlight strolls along the beach

Drowning

I Under water where the deeper depths are down where breathing doesn't happen for me a slow motion is movement, like waves breaking. None of us knows motion like this, poised, delicate,

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