rosaliekempthorne
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I have 467 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 334020 times
and 455 of my stories have been cherry picked.
38 of my 314 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 39 votes
I write these days a cacophony of genres: fantasy, sci-fi, mainstream, literary, some poetry every now and then. Novels, short stories, novellas, and whatever might fall in-between. I joined ABC Tales in May of 2014, and appreciate the forum it gives me to write and experiment, and even to include my strange little illustrations next to my work.
You won't see a lot of my stories published anywhere else just yet, but please check out a few of these sites:
http://365tomorrows.com/?s=Kempthorne
http://everydayfiction.com/tag/rosalie-kempthorne/
http://www.flash-frontier.com/april-2016-slow/
Or check out my e-book: The Price of Blood; Book One of the Golwerra Stories, available from Amazon. Links here to my book on Amazon UK and US.
and keep watching this space...
There are also a few more stories, and a few ravings (I mean, blog entries) to be found on my website: www.rosaliekempthorne.name
And check out (somebody... please... anybody) my 24-part story "These Words That Describe Melissa": https://www.wattpad.com/user/rosaliekempthorne
My stories
Gregory
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- 270 reads
Bananas
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- 440 reads
Watch
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- 5 comments
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Ice Blue Eyes
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The Year
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This story had so much going
Posted on Tue, 11 Jan 2022
This story had so much going for it, it was warm (sorry, had to go there), imaginative, kinda funny, and had some fascinating details about life in faraway or long-ago places. Very good voice, and a conversation style of writing breathed plenty...
Read full commentPosted in A Hot Little Model from France
The simplicity makes it scary
Posted on Thu, 06 Jan 2022
The simplicity makes it scary, no monsters jumping out of closets or the like, just the sense of a presence and the feeling of a hand, but those details are scarier than an overt monster attack, and the horror was well-evoked.
Read full commentPosted in Ghost Story
Attention-getting title; and
Posted on Fri, 30 Jul 2021
Attention-getting title; and I like the modern voice that Menalaus has here. This blends the modern-day into the suggestion of the legend, whilst all the time feeling natural reading smoothly.
Read full commentPosted in Notes by Menelaus on Helen’s Abduction
Nice, catchy title to hook
Posted on Wed, 21 Jul 2021
Nice, catchy title to hook readers, and some significant points made in the poem that follows.
Read full commentPosted in Instead of throwing money at the sky
The sharp, economic wording
Posted on Sat, 12 Jun 2021
The sharp, economic wording really brought energy to this piece. You could feel the tension and momentum - kind of like lightning getting ready to strike.
Read full commentPosted in Storm, no rain!
Emotional and enlightening
Posted on Fri, 28 May 2021
Emotional and enlightening and with lots of truth, I think this will strike a chord with a lot of people who, even if they haven't been exactly there, have been somewhere quite similar.
Read full commentPosted in Mental awareness
Beautiful and elegant writing
Posted on Fri, 21 May 2021
Beautiful and elegant writing with a smooth kind of poetic arc to swing around and capture the trees and poets again at the end. Nicely done.
Read full commentPosted in In Conversation With Bears
skillfully done, dark, with a
Posted on Sat, 20 Jun 2020
skillfully done, dark, with a clever, unobtrusive rhyme. A lot captured in this small space.
Read full commentPosted in Tragedium
A well-worked rhyme that
Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2020
A well-worked rhyme that doesn't ovewhelm the poem, and an evocative presentation of these two characters.
Read full commentPosted in Manky Panky
I like the rhythm this has,
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2020
I like the rhythm this has, and the kind of inspirational note that it finishes on, which is built up towards over the course of the poem.
Read full commentPosted in I've forgotten
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