This Brief Life of Sparks

Various writings

David Hadley

This webpage is mainly intended as an archive for older pieces, for example, stories and poems I withdrew from the submission process some time ago, old newsgroup posts, and so forth.

All updates about recent publications and so forth will now take place on my blog:

A Tangled Rope

Also, all future short stories, poems and other similar works, along with some of the pieces I've published here, will now be found in my collections at the

Short Stories:

If I Show You A Flower

Memory Stones

Mermaid

How I Became the Fat Bloke

Tales of the Unexpurgated:

Biographical Note:

I am 40-odd years old, married with three children. I live in the West Midlands. I write.

The title of this page This Brief Life Of Sparks is taken from a poem of mine

entitled Fireworks which was first published in Eclipse Issue 8 October 1999.

Fireworks

These times take the shape
of beginnings for you.
But I've lived a lifelike this before.
The sharp sudden colours
of fireworks exploding
into instances of creation
are so new to you, so you
bang on the window
and clap and yell.

I have been here before
and every now is tinged
with memories of my first times
and how each bursting memory
lasted longer, far longer
than this brief life of sparks
tumbling down onto damp ground.

Times like this are gone
so suddenly. We forget
so much about transience.
But this - it is your first time,
it will always last forever.

My email address: ah004a2055@blueyonder.co.uk

All these writings are (c) David A. Hadley. Not to be used without Permission.