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Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 20 Dec 2024

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 Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 13 Dec 2024

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

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Sun, 01 Dec 2024

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...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 29 Nov 2024

Posted by airyfairy. I hope that none of the various storms rampaging around have caused too much havoc for people. There's been lots of lovely writing on here to take our minds off it all.

Saltburn, by ABCTales Writer Drew Gummerson. Pre-Order your Copy!

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Sun, 17 Nov 2024

Very big congratulations to Drew Gummerson whose new book Saltburn, has a publishing date and can be pre-ordered on the link below. Here's what Drew says: Saltburn. I started Saltburn here on ABCTales in the first week of 2020. In February 2025 it’s going to be published. This is the story. I’m usually terrible at remembering dates. But in 2019 I was writing Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel, also posting it here, and I remember I wanted to...

Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 15 Nov 2024

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point, posted by Di_Hard Thank you so much for all the wonderful writing this week! Two powerful pieces of prose have really stood out for me - Turlough combines being (surely) one of the world's best listeners with easygoing profundity in his travel writing. In this account of a visit to an antique shop in Serbia, he has given me a new understanding of that country's recent history : https://www...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 08 Nov 2024

Posted by airyfairy. Thank you to everyone for the lovely contributions to ABC this week! Story of the Week is Ewan's 'Message: Post Scriptum'. It's very funny, surreal, and of course totally unrelated to events in the real world. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Message : Post Scriptum | ABCtales Poem of the Week is Angus Folklore's stunning 'East Coast Scotland (Reflection). It combines history, myth, and wonderful observation of 'the sea...

House Anthems by Ralph Dartford, a Review by Ewan Lawrie

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 08 Nov 2024

House Anthems Ralph Dartford Published by Valley Press I know some of Ralph’s work from what he has shared on ABCTales.com. Always thoughtful, with significant depth of feeling and honesty, his poems are sculpted from blocks of language until what is left is poetry that is both striking and meaningful. I am particularly impressed with ‘House Anthems’, the final collection in his ‘Recovery Trilogy’. The playlist Ralph has curated to accompany...

Urban Pigs. Call For Submissions

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Wed, 06 Nov 2024

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: 'This call-out window is dedicated to the fixated, the obsessed and the chained. The addiction might be chemical, but not necessarily. Some are addicted to money, sugar, rubber, horror films—the person with blue eyes and a heart tattoo who works on checkout. Prose only...

Story and Poem of the Month

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Sun, 03 Nov 2024

Our Story and Poem for the month of October, very kindly chosen by Di_hard: It has been wonderful to have so much great writing to brighten up encroaching nights. Thank you very much to everyone who has posted on ABCTales in October. This is a selection of work which I have really enjoyed - there are many more. Poems : I loved Turlough's gorgeous goodbye to Crete, the perfect antidote to our drizzly chill : https://www.abctales.com/story/...

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