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Chosen by Di_Hard Thankyou so much to everyone who has posted their writing this week, it has been a huge pleasure reading so many great Stories and Poems. Pick of the Week for Poems goes to Ed Crane's erudite and thought provoking Still Life: https://www.abctales.com/story/ed-crane/still-life On a related theme I would also like to recommmend Turlough's wonderful Turn and Face The Strange: https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/turn-and-face-...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 26 Apr 2024 As always, some amazing writing on the site this week, and it's been a hard but very pleasurable task choosing the Picks. Story of the Week is from the wonderful celticman. Characters so vivid you can (quite often) smell them, and dialogue most of us would kill to be able to write. 'Sean Happens 3' is another slice of Glasgow life, and if you haven't read any of celtic's stuff before, this is a great place...

Posted by Di_Hard Wonderful variety of writing this week, I have really enjoyed reading them all! After whittling and whittling, Story of the Week is Turlough's latest diary entry, including the arrival of storks and the discovery that it's lucky to stand in dog shit on the first of the month: https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/sort-thing-march-2024-la-finale Poem of the Week is a gorgeous description of this time of year from Hoalarg:...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for March very kindly chosen by Jane Hyphen: After much enjoyment, reading and deliberating on the March contributions on ABC tales. My choices are as follows: Story of the Month goes to celticman's Windfall, this wonderful writing brings the memories of a childhood teacher into sharper and sharper focus until it just made my eyes water. Honourable mentions to marandina for the mysterious, York based tale of The...

Posted by onemorething: This week's Poem of the Week is socialeaf's very beautiful poem, The Red Kite. https://www.abctales.com/story/socialeaf/red-kite-bird-prey This week's Story of the Week is Ashton Macaulay's brilliant and frightening tale, There's a Pill for That. https://www.abctales.com/story/macashton/theres-pill This week's Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a great week everyone.