rosaliekempthorne
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I have 445 stories published in
16 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 191517 times
and 423 of my stories have been cherry picked.
37 of my 315 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
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Half, or Less, of an Invitation
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Eight
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- 147 reads
Listening
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- 403 reads
A Shadow of Guilt
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- 52 reads
Dreok
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- 65 reads
This is nicely done. The
Posted on Sat, 04 Dec 2021
This is nicely done. The writing is smooth and visceral and still dramatic. You get some real feelings coming out here. I would have kinda liked to know a bit more about the whole parental meet though, maybe just a few details threaded here and...
Read full commentPosted in Suddenly in the End Zone
This really brings out the
Posted on Fri, 27 Aug 2021
This really brings out the emotional impact of losing the ability to communicate, the fear even more than the frustration. The style of the poem is all wrapped around the subject matter in a way that brings it to life and lets the reader get a...
Read full commentPosted in Aphasia
Loved it. This was bright and
Posted on Sat, 13 Mar 2021
Loved it. This was bright and fun, with a nice, smooth rhyme to it.
Read full commentPosted in Burglars beware!
A smart, well-written
Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022
A smart, well-written allegory.
Read full commentPosted in two men
oh yes. this gets it just
Posted on Mon, 11 Feb 2019
oh yes. this gets it just right. with a simple structure, economy of prose, and little fuss.
Read full commentPosted in driverless
I'm relatively new to this
Posted on Sun, 23 Jan 2022
I'm relatively new to this cast of characters (I think I might have to read some backstory) but I'm finding them charming, larger-than-life, a bit absurd, and quite entertaining. This Elder guy has an engaging voice; and I want to read some more...
Read full commentPosted in The Extraordinary Ectomorph
A fun story, and my first
Posted on Mon, 10 Jan 2022
A fun story, and my first encounter with Mr Muggins. He seems pretty entertaining though, so maybe I'll have to check him out a bit more...
Read full commentPosted in Time Travel To The Court Of Old Henry VIII : Henry's Infatuation and the Religious Earthquake! By Mr A.N.Muggins (Sir Alfred Muggins, soon to be Lord Muggins!) Part 1
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
Fascinating story. So far
Posted on Thu, 06 Jan 2022
Fascinating story. So far removed from my own experience in both time and place. Another world, almost. Really interesting to read about experiences like these.
Read full commentPosted in Number Three
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
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