rosaliekempthorne

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I have 467 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 267505 times and 455 of my stories have been cherry picked.
42 of my 329 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 44 votes

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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

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Gregory

My first and only and hardest ever crush – the kind that never really goes away – was on Gregory Jarrell. He was just a kid. And so was I. So maybe...
Cherry

Bananas

“Do you think you could throw it like a boomerang?” “Huh?” So, we’re walking through the supermarket and this is what she comes up with: Do you think...
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Story of the week

Watch

What she loved was the watch. Well, there were many things that she loved in that old workshop, out the back of the shop where it was musty and dusty...
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Story of the week

Ice Blue Eyes

Is she cold? No, I don’t think she is. I think it’s only the eyes. But I’ve seen them when they cry, and I’ve seen her full of anger, full of grief,...
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The Year

Nobody knew which year it was going to be. There was much speculation, there were apps, there was betting, there were psychics who made proclamations...
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42 of my comments have received 44 Great Feedback votes

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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...

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Posted 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

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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...

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Posted in A Hot Little Model from France

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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.

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Posted in Number Three

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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.

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Posted in Ghost Story

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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.

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Posted in Notes by Menelaus on Helen’s Abduction

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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.

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Posted in Instead of throwing money at the sky

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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.

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Posted in Storm, no rain!

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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.

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Posted in Mental awareness

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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.

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Posted in In Conversation With Bears

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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.

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Posted in Tragedium

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