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Posted by onemorething: Some incredible poetry and prose on the site this week again which always makes these choices difficult. There are some great tales this week and such variety, from Sim's The Hall of Glass Coffins to the very evocative latest chapter of Vincent Burgess' Alien Murmuration. https://www.abctales.com/story/sim/hall-glass-coffins https://www.abctales.com/story/vincent-burgess/alien-murmuration-chapter-20-summer-1992 However,...

What a wonderful selection of writing there's been this week - thank you all so much for making ABCTales such a vibrant place Our Poem of the Week goes to Jennifer for Anxiety Rules, her personal account of a very debilitating condition. it's the first time she's written about it and has struck a chord with many of us. Our Story of the Week is Hudsonmoon's I Read it in the Daily News - A Ned's Tale which is just gloriously funny and one of the...

Posted by airyfairy. After much enjoyable reading the Picks for this week come from two ABC stalwarts who have both been at their very best. Story of the Week is celticman's 'Love Story 2'. It has all the hallmarks of a celticman story - brilliant characterisation, sharp humour and the ability to rip your heart out. As you may have guessed, there is first part, and I would strongly urge you to read that too, if you haven't yet, although the...

Our Story and Poem for the month of September have very kindly been chosen by Di_Hard It is a huge responsibility and honour to try to narrow down all the great writing from September into a shortlist. More and more fabulous work kept appearing and the choice became harder and harder. Here is a sample : highly recommended poems https://www.abctales.com/story/jane-hyphen/i-found-sea https://www.abctales.com/story/lenchenelf/hush https://www...

Big congratulations to Mary-Ann Storm who writes on ABCTales as Mary-Ann and has just published her first collection of children's stories' Here's what she says about it: 'Dinno's Adventure takes you on a self discovering journey, whilst it highlights the importance of family and friendships.In this fun pact adventure of short stories lessons are learned and anything is possible and can be overcome,if you just believe in yourself.' There doesn't...

Posted by airyfairy Hope everybody has had a good week! Story of the Week is another funny, charming and insightful tale from Hudson Moon. We all get The Bothers, and Hudson offers a solution which is guaranteed to work. Until it doesn't. A delightful read for your weekend: The Bothers | ABCtales Poem of the Week is Dynamaso's 'Scratched'. It's beautifully written, slightly unnerving, and will stay with you long after reading: Scratched |...

Both of my choices this week are under-the radar pieces, but I do hope this will give them the reads they deserve - they're both brilliant! Story of the Week goes to The Other Terrence Oblong for his very funny two parter The Feast Problem. Can you imagine what might happen when fine dining (and the Guardian restaurant critic) arrive on Happy Island? Me neither, but it made me laugh out loud when I read Terrence's account, and I hope it does the...

I'm very pleased to announce that Ewan's second Poetry collection is out now and available to order from Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGG6GMJ7 "Abandoned Flowers" is Ewan Lawrie's second collection of poems. His first, Last Night I Met John Adcock was shortlisted for The Poetry Book Awards 2020. This second collection is an anthology - from the Greek meaning "Gathered Flowers" - of highly personal poetry. It's not about flowers. Here's a...

Our Story and Poem for the month of August have very kindly been picked by Ewan: Picks Of The Month. So many to choose from. Bookmarking likely prospects means you can look through them all near the end of the month. The other method is to create a document noting all the URLs for the ones you’re going to consider when the time comes. Two pages this month. That’s a lot to think about… And a lot to prune away. Of course, there is no way to do...

Posted by Ewan on Fri, 01 Sep 2023 Competition was fierce this week as it has been for all of the month previous. Story of the Week Sean McNulty’s The Bradbury is to his usual very high standard and just pips Jane Hyphen’s ‘ Is That All There Is ’ and The Other Terrence Oblong’s ‘ The Woollen Mill Problem ’ to the accolade. Poem of the Week Turlough’s beautiful and moving ‘ You Never Said ’ is this week’s Poem of the Week. I’d like to mention...