rosaliekempthorne
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I have 321 stories published in
14 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 109133 times
and 287 of my stories have been cherry picked.
22 of my 279 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 21 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
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Gideon Gunther
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- 147 reads
Winter
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- 129 reads
Best Judgement
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Monkeys
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- 325 reads
Sugar and Spice
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- 64 reads
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
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
Lovely. Beautifully captured
Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2019
Lovely. Beautifully captured portrait of abuse and its scars. Those last lines finish it on a strong note.
Read full commentPosted in forgive
Actually, on its own I think
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2019
Actually, on its own I think this poem says a lot. At least to me it speaks about the analysing and over-analysing of literature/art until its leached of all its beauty and whatever it's really trying to say. Tidily and cleverly expressed.
Read full commentPosted in Words Beyond Meaning
Poetic and yet raw, this one
Posted on Thu, 19 Dec 2019
Poetic and yet raw, this one packs a solid punch. Some really attention-getting phrases ('tiny wind-slapped lives' 'thousand-sided eyes' 'wandering lost through leg forests') that strike a perfect chord in getting their message - their feeling -...
Read full commentPosted in Exhaling Stars
Love it! The rhyming and
Posted on Tue, 12 Nov 2019
Love it! The rhyming and rhythm are first rate, and it's hilarious. But is this a bit more about the kind and mind of a male than I ever needed to know? I may never look at one in quite the same way again...
Read full commentPosted in THE KIND OF AND MIND OF A MALE.
And yet the protagonist did
Posted on Sun, 06 Oct 2019
And yet the protagonist did find an audience, even if it was an audience of one. Lots of good writing in this story, with the 'damaged goods for damaged good' and 'rip-offs for rip-offs'. There was a kind of symmetry to it as well, with the...
Read full commentPosted in Awakening from Stephen King's Nightmare.
Beautiful stuff. As soon as I
Posted on Thu, 03 Oct 2019
Beautiful stuff. As soon as I caught that bit about the 'drunken filigree of midnight', I knew i had to read this poem. It's power-packed and full of energy and evocative, challenging writing.
Read full commentPosted in American Diaspora
Lovely poem, all the right
Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2019
Lovely poem, all the right phrases to bring the subject to life. Simple and powerful and real. Nice work.
Read full commentPosted in Monachopsis
Nice, well written. Getting
Posted on Thu, 10 Jan 2019
Nice, well written. Getting the rhythm and rhyme to come together naturally, and with a point to make, without sounding at all forced is not an easy task.
Read full commentPosted in Actual Action
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