David Kirtley
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David Kirtley
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Christmas Spell
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All the hopes of the year Looked forward to this time Gathering at the end, To finish the year in style. Never enough time to be ourselves, Shops all...
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Dictators
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Neither Sauron nor Saruman can touch us here. Syria is a ruin, Populations displaced and killed. Yemen is dying, Its people tortured and ignored...
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Rivendell
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Spa pool and hall, lovely landscape. Newfound home away from home, overlooking the Cheshire Plain, and Manchester in the distance. Like Rivendell, it...
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Tales Of Gallanol : Ch.6 The Party (Part 2: Aftermath)
The High King's Companions have attempted to ruin Jovian's reputation at the Party, the night before. He must now face the High King in person. Will he be believed? Set in the early stages of Gallanol's civil war.
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Funeral For A Friend
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Friends lost, one by one. We have all got to go sometime. Not like this, taken before our time. Not taken, chosen. A desperate way to go. Time ran...
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These are good pieces, well
Posted on Tue, 19 Jun 2018
These are good pieces, well written and intelligent visions of the future!
Read full commentPosted in UV (Part 3) - Dillon
I did enjoy this piece. The
Posted on Tue, 01 Jan 2019
I did enjoy this piece. The difficulties of modern life and the worries of unforeseen health issues were well explained.
Read full commentPosted in Help For Hero's.
Very appropriate I think to
Posted on Sun, 11 Nov 2018
Very appropriate I think to bring these issues together on Remembrance Day. I enjoyed and was interested to read the tales of the lives of your grandfather and father with the subject of homelessness which so often seems to afflict veterans and...
Read full commentPosted in Remembering isn't enough ...
Very funny. I enjoyed that!
Posted on Tue, 19 Jun 2018
Very funny. I enjoyed that!
Read full commentPosted in Britney and Shania
Thanks for your comment Elsie
Posted on Fri, 29 Dec 2017
Thanks for your comment Elsie. I agree we seem to have moved forward from the clinical academic marking exercise approach to literary criticism, which has got to be good news. I think we give more of a personal response now on abctales....
Read full commentPosted in Have We Written Too Much?
Good piece, very effective.
Posted on Fri, 16 Dec 2016
Good piece, very effective.
Read full commentPosted in subjected/ subjugated
I like the simple and direct
Posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2015
I like the simple and direct message and delivery of this poem.
Read full commentPosted in 25/11/2015
Your story is developing well
Posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2014
Your story is developing well with surprising twists. There was no explanation of why she chose to awake or use Antares. How did she know about this demon? It might be worth including a sentence or two on these questions.
Read full commentAlso I think it...
Posted in Euphoria Blake: Infernally Divine
A promising story, encourages
Posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2014
A promising story, encourages me to read further. I do think that second long paragraph needs breaking up into smaller paragraphs. You have the mother's disappearance and the father's death both in the same paragraph, but they are different...
Read full commentPosted in Euphoria Blake: Infernally Divine