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I have 15 stories published in
2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 19842 times
and 8 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Tessa Davies
My stories
January 12th
This shadow, multiplying mother after mother, is where my daughter labours in her own time her face a pale distance from mine. She rocks, gripping my hand tight so the rings hurt,
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- 769 reads
On the Bright Thread of Time
On the bright thread of time I am nobody’s child On the bright thread of time I am not your mother But some kind of kindred spirit With the power of a larger body
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- 1368 reads
Artichokes
In the morning she woke, body a sun-baked stone only her lips alive. Light streamed through the window touching her body, dissolving its’ white dust to gold
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- 1529 reads
Land Girl
“A beautiful world,” Joyce murmured, “but going on too long.” Every branch on every tree had a neat layer of snow and the sun shone from a hard, blue sky.
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- 773 reads
Bubbles and Wasps
Every summer William and his mother set off from Brighton to stay with his grandmother in South Wales.
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- 1908 reads
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