Pick of the day
Story of the week
Poem of the week
The Speed Of Dark // Eclipse
Posted by Caldwell on Mon, 28 Oct 2024
No clock can measure, no hand can stay,
The speed of darkness eats the day.
Like Magritte’s sky of feathered night,
It swallows sun, eclipses light.
Stairways twist in Escher's maze,
Where shadows bend and time decays;
The dark descends in downward flight,
And folds the world in quiet blight.
Features
Urban Pigs. Call For Submissions
ABCTales writer Mark Burrow is a guest editor for Urban Pigs Press this month and they're looking for short and flash fiction on the theme of Addiction for their online magazine:
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Story and Poem of the Month
Our Story and Poem for the month of October, very kindly chosen by Di_hard:
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Atypical Love Anthology featuring ABCTales Writer HarryC - out now!
ABCTales writer, HarryC has a short story - Conservatory, by Kevin Marman - included this new anthology!
"A striking and eclectic collection." Elvin James Mensah, author of Small Joys
Read moreStory and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point
Posted by onemorething:
Happy November!
Well, I'll get straight to it.
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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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Picks of the Month
Tom Tom Turnaround (5) (ii)
Posted by HarryC on Sun, 06 Oct 2024
It was a hard decision. But a month later saw her sailing out of Liverpool on the Royal George with everything she owned in the world crammed into a brown cardboard suitcase, tied with string from the ball her father kept in his shed.
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