Pick of the day
Hot Cross Buns and Fish and Chips
Posted by Turlough on Wed, 02 Apr 2025
It’s that one hundred words thing again, covering the second half of March when I was mostly in England.
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Kings Hall
Posted by tanisdt on Mon, 24 Mar 2025
The plastic bench creaks as they sit, arranging bags carefully to avoid the steam that puddles around the picture window. In the swimming pool their kids attempt a breast stroke – a young uniformed coach thinking about what to have for dinner as children gamefully thrash from one end of the pool to the other with a float under one arm, water churning.Read morePoem of the week
Features
Saltburn by Drew Gummerson - Out Now! Link to buy plus a review
I'm very pleased to announce that Saltburn, by our very own Drew Gummerson is out now and available to buy here:
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Posted by onemorething:
Evening all, happy Friday.
Our Poem of the Week, this week, is Queen Beatle's excellent Heddiw, dim byd newydd.
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'Gift, a son's story' by Dan Seagrave - out now!
I'm very pleased to announce the publication of 'Gift, a son's story' by Dan Seagrave. Dan writes as HarryC on ABCTales and is one of our most talented writers.
You can order your copy here (free on Kindle Unlimited)
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Our Story and Poem for the month of February, very kindly chosen by Mark Burrow
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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
A series of horses decreasing in size
Posted by lavadis on Tue, 18 Feb 2025
My parents had at least three children Read more
Goose-Stepping Down Main Street
Posted by hudsonmoon on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
I’m too old to start goose stepping. Duck walks I can handle—my declining years having given me no choice. But it should make it easier to duck behind the sofa, lobbing a brick or two, when the Hats come calling.
So it goes, as the man once said.
Though, I don’t expect the Hats to be so polite as to ring the doorbell.
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