Pick of the day

Goodbye Dad

She came across the plump, brown, padded jiffy bag when emptying out the chest of drawers in the spare room ready for the new lodger to move in. She had managed to forget that it was here, but knew what it was the minute her hand alighted on the soft paper of the envelope. Lifting it out of the drawer she saw her name and address on the front, block capitals in black marker pen. It was still sealed – she’d never opened it.

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Story of the week

The Many Trials of Arthur Gunbridge - Chapters 1-3

Chapter 1 – A Troublesome Tuesday
 
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Poem of the week

For Hallowe’en, For Survival

Respecting the finest of lines that separates survival and death.

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Features

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point

What an extraordinarily productive week it's been on ABCTales - encompassing Halloween and Guy Fawkes, with Inspiration Points to match, you have all been very busy - thank you for sharing the results with us!

 

 

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Story and Poem of the Month

 

 

Our Story and Poem for September, very kindly chosen by hudsonmoon:

 

 

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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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'Waiting For Another Velvet Morning' by Julia Macpherson. Reviews!

This one is personal for a few of us on ABCTales. Julia (Overthetop1) was one of our much loved users as is her mother Coral (seashore).

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Bee's Journey

Picks of the Month

White Noise

Now I'm in the system riding on ocean

waves of chemotherapy and medication

deeper than anything I've known before,

needles bruise; feeding Pembrolizumab –

Aprepitant – Ondansetron.

 

Restore this malfunctioning body, let me

be pure...crush the enemy. I imagine good

cells as they glow in bright white light that

shimmers as I anticipate autumn's energy

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For Present Company

These streets and their cigarette butts.  They lie dead in the puddles like forgotten men.  They’ll be gone soon in the coming slush.  Winter’s assignment is to give us all a good wash, person and paving alike.

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