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I have 446 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 591340 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

Princess

I saw your dream, held in an open hand offered to anyone who dared even pause in that impatient busy city street. I saw the dance on the wide-open stage

Rain On The Window

As a guilt-ridden middle-class politics student, she needed a working-class hero, and I… well, at the time, I had nothing better to do.
Cherry

The Note

The note is held, there, in the centre of the still room. It seems even breathing stopped. As though that one note holds all living pulses within its own bounds.

Kneeling

I turn back towards a ghost of memory. On some sun-defined morning I could have found her there, kneeling by a limpid rock pool holding her long black hair back with one hand,

Flying

I hoped to break free soon, and learn then how to soar on up toward the bluest skies and, reaching out, forever taking handfuls from the empty air.

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