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I have 446 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 591364 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

Sheets

Such easy days, and the time drips by, like rain off a leaf. We stand and laugh, sit and smile, lie and kiss. I feel the warm easy pressure of your skin on my fingertips.

Snow Storm

Here is a moment I found just for you. A memory of winter days. Tip it up and see slow snow falling. Take this memory that can sit fragile as a snowflake in the open palm of one hand.

A Ghost Song

Days are like wind chimes floating on the breeze. So much that is forgotten is forgotten. So much that is remembered haunts this waking dream. This is all that was ever offered

Sea Horses

Now the sea horses are still, poised, ornate like delicate jewellery. What that means, I do not know. We move on, in shoals, through the depths of dark shadows
Cherry

A Slight Delay

So talk comes to a halt again as the rail tracks curl off into the distance parallel lines curving off together like some long unresolved argument. The train we are riding on

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