Pick of the day

"Sounds Like They're Saying Words"

It is several years since I last drove the road to Aberdeen at 4.30am.  Since then, many farmers appear to have cashed in on the great wind turbine klondike.  The gazillion-candle lights they have plastered all over their farm buildings make the land mass look like spaceships have landed.  Perhaps tractors aren’t big enough for them anymore, they have to be able to be seen from space.  I find it depressing.  How must it affect the geese...

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Story of the week

Pyromania

 
PYROMANIA
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Poem of the week

STILL LIFE

My three objects pictured as a (sort of) still life

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Features

Story and Poem of the Month

Our Story and Poem of the Month for April, very kindly chosen by Drew Gummerson

An honour, as always, and a pleasure, to be the one doing the Picks of the Month. 

 

I’ll be brief. So here we go. 

 

Story. 

 

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ABCTales Reading Event May 18th, 7pm - Please Read

I'm very pleased to announce that the readers list is now full! It's going to be a wonderful evening with some brilliant readers, new and old. Thank you all so much for registering!

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Want to join ABCTales?

We've had to suspend the automatic joining facility for a while so if you would like to join us please email 

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Posting From Your Android Phone - Fixed!

Some of you have been having issues with posting your work using an android phone. Ewan and John our techie have been working really hard to fix this.

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Bee's Journey

Picks of the Month

Brownwall

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Doubt

 

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