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Trump reads Hansel and Gretel
Posted by Caldwell on Sun, 28 Sep 2025
So there were these two kids, Hansel and Gretel - great kids, really terrific kids. Everybody said so. And they had a father, who was, you know, weak. Very weak. He let this nasty stepmother push him around. Sad! I’ve seen it before, folks, believe me.Read morePoem of the week
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Story and Poem of the Month
Our Story and Poem of the Month for September, very kindly chosen by Ewan:
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Posted by airyfairy.
Welcome to cold and rainy October! Fortunately there's been lots of splendid stuff on ABC to take our minds off it.
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Circulaire by Bex Hainsworth : Review and Link to Buy
I am delighted to announce that Bex Hainsworth (our very own Mistaken Magic)'s Circulaire is out now and available to order from the link below, along with a review by marandina;
Firstly an introduction by Bex herself:
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One Night At Kedasi by Ashton Macaulay: Review!
I'm very pleased to announce that One Night At Kedasi by Ashton Macaulay will be out on September 23rd.
Ashton writes for ABCTales as mac_ashton and the story was originally posted on our site.
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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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Welsh Lessons-1
Posted by Ivan the OK-ish on Mon, 29 Sep 2025
WELSH LESSONS
April 1975, on the waste ground where the old abattoir used to be
“S’mae?”
“Sorry, don’t speak Welsh.”
“Just means ‘How’s things? We all say it here.”
“You Welsh?”
“No. But I’ve lived here almost all my life. I’m Nicholas…Nick, by the way. You’re Janice?”
“Guess everybody in the village knows that. Are we the first in this place?”
“First what?”
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