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Story and Poem of the Month

Our Story and Poem for the Month of January, very kindly chosen by marandina: Well here we go again….another January gone….and another new year under way. We now have new governments in situ on both sides of the Atlantic. Donald trump is back in the US and it’s as though he’s never been away. Maybe this is the beginning of the end for the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. We can hope so. As ever, the writing oasis that is ABCTales remains a...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

A big hello to everyone from the last day of January which couldn't come soon enough for me. The days are already lengthening and there are lots of green shoots in my garden - all very welcome distractions from events I have two pieces of news from ABCTales: a big welcome back to Sooz06 who's posting her latest work in progress which is looking very good so far: https://www.abctales.com/story/sooz006/book-chapter-1 And tomorrow I'm sure you'll...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Onemorething. Our Poem of the Week is queen beatle's rather beautiful Dryad. https://www.abctales.com/story/queen-beatle/dryad Our Story of the Week is hudsonmoon's wonderful Making Resolutions at Ned's 1944. https://www.abctales.com/story/hudsonmoon/making-resolutions-neds-1944 This week's Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Stay safe over this stormy weekend and wishing you all a warm and lovely...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by airyfairy Reading this week's wonderful ABC contributions has certainly brightened up bleak January for me. The great stuff on here bodes very well for 2025! Story of the Week is the latest episode of JA Stapleton's noir detective tale 'The Patrolman'. Beautifully written, immensely enjoyable, and a piece of writing that would serve as a stand-alone story as well as another part of an intriguing whole. If you haven't read the rest of...

Story and Poem of the Month

Our Story and Poem of the Month for December, very kindly chosen by Ewan Pick of the Month December 2024 The New Year is upon us as you read this: December is often a fecund month for ABCTalers, particularly in the run up to the festive season. This year is no exception. However, despite all choices for accolades from red cherries to Pick of the Month to being entirely subjective, every contributor is valued for their own sake. I admire all of...

Pick of the Week and Inspiration Point

Pick of the Week and Inspiration Point chosen by di_hard Happy New Year to all you wonderful Writers and Readers on ABCTales! I hope you all had a good Christmas, and are raring to go with your literary talents in 2025! This week's Highly Recommended Poem is from Rhiannon, another of her genius children's rhymes, please try reading it out loud : https://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/rustle Highly Recomended Story is from brilliant author...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

I hope you all had/are having a wonderful Christmas break, and that Father Christmas brought you everything you wished for. We've had some wonderful things posted this week - thank you so much for sharing them! It was particularly hard to decide on our Story of the Week, but I'm going to go with Jane Hyphen's very funny and original Planet Secret Santa Our Poem of the Week goes to Angus Folklore's wonderful The Border Ballads https://www...

Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point

Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point chosen this week by di_hard Opening this Treasure Chest of ABCTales, again and again every reader will be struck by the variety of gems within, all different, all of value in their own way. As ever, too many to list, but enjoyed by this reader, so Thank You very much for posting Some of my favourites are : This beautiful diary entry from HarryC : https://www.abctales.com/story/harryc/gift-sons-...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by airyfairy. Another lovely week on ABC Tales! As always it's been a hard job making the selections, but a very enjoyable one as well.

Story and Poem of the Month

Our Story and Poem for the Month of November, very kindly chosen for us by Turlough ABC Tales Story and Poem of the Month for November I’ve enjoyed picking out November’s poem and story of the month but I’m glad I don’t have to do it every month because the mountain of excellent writing to choose from makes it an extraordinarily difficult task. Congratulations from me to the writers of all the pieces I have selected, and apologies to those I’ve...

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