Pick of the day
How to Make Money with a Broken Spirograph
Posted by Turlough on Wed, 07 Jan 2026
Oh what a month! Late December back in ’25. My experiences of it described at the going rate of one hundred words per day.
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The Other Side of the Attic Window II
Posted by hudsonmoon on Thu, 01 Jan 2026
The twins stopped by with a question.“How’d you become a ghost?”
“It was my turn,” I said.
Halloween being over, I thought I’d have more me time. But once you unleash a new thing to a child, it becomes theirs. Until they tire of it. Or it moves. But moving is not an option I’ve been given.Read more
Poem of the week
Newport
Posted by markashley on Tue, 30 Dec 2025
dull drab drenched
slick slate cobble
beneath church tower shadow
with dark green fringe
and little red berries
poisoned podules in the rain.
muddy clouds collide
with silver sunlight shafts
and the rain takes hold.
Features
Story and Poem of the Month
Our Story and Poem of the Month for December, very kindly chosen by Drew Gummerson:
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Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point
Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point, posted by di_hard
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The Payout Game by ABCTales Writer Robert Craven, Available to Preorder Now!
A dead bookmaker. A rushed verdict.
Inspector Crowe isn’t buying it.
Xion Island Zero by Katherine Black - Out Now!
I'm very pleased to announce that Katherine Black (our very own Sooz Simpson) has just published Xion Island Zero, the sixth in her Inspector Nash series.
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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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Picks of the Month
Variable
Posted by VeraClark on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
When the hysterics home
in me: it is uncanny, a new
sort of normal. He says
he loves how my kitty eyes
turn lynx cat when I lose it.
He makes me feel perilous.
Five days after the ordeal
with the paramedics, he
gets me fruits for solstice.
I undress an orange and
the selkies in the pool of
his voice lull me to important
things like pea soup fog and