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I have 446 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 591370 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

Worker

This whole business has been yet another one of those things. Sometimes I wonder just how I get into situations like this. Things seem to happen to...

A Mermaid

There is a beach, the sand almost white, colourless. The sky is bright, early morning blue. The sea is lazy, calm, whispering its secrets to the...

IF I Show You A Flower

"If I take your hand, and lead you away from here," she said, looking up at his face. "If we walk together through shady, sun-dappled places, talking...

Fireworks

These times take the shape of beginnings for you. But I've lived a life like this before. The sharp sudden colours of fireworks exploding

A Possibility of Holding

Out where there are dreams of distances and silences I dare to reach towards your nakedness with hands that can only do so little. I never learnt to make things

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