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Our picks for the month of June have very kindly been chosen by Mark Burrow: ABCtales – Pick of the Month The joy of ABCtales is in the variety. Everybody is welcome to play in the sandpit of prose and poetry. Looking over the work in June, there was plenty of writing to choose from. It seems obligatory for anyone who does Pick of the Month to say it’s been hard to make a selection. Well, as someone doing this for the first time, I can confirm...

Posted by onemorething: Spoilt for choice on ABCtales as usual! Nevertheless, since I must make a choice... Story of the Week is celticman's Goatie 9 which is a brilliant tale, brilliantly written. https://www.abctales.com/story/celticman/goatie-9 Always tough though because reading jeand's update was great news and well-written. https://www.abctales.com/story/jeand/or-isnt-lena And one of my favourite writers, sean mcnulty, gave us a treat too...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 16 Jun 2023 The variety of work on ABC Tales never ceases to amaze and delight me, and sometimes that variety can be seen in the work of individual writers. A brilliant example of that is marandina, who has given us not only his engrossing Song to the Siren SF story, but also the beautiful and tender tale that is our Story of the Week, 'A Cat, A Leaf and Fresh Fish'. In this you will find love, loneliness and a mutual...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for May has very kindly been chosen by Di_Hard: All the gifted writers who posted their wonderful work this month have made choosing only one Story and Poem very difficult, but a great time reading! I would like to recommend all of Mark Burrow's intensely moving Breakdowns, in May particularly : https://www.abctales.com/story/mark-burrow/breakdowns-7-part-i And a writer new to ABCTales, Aronovitz has started...

Chosen this week by Ewan . Hello all, another bank holiday week, but that hasn't stopped you gifted writers one bit. Naturally, that makes it all a bit difficult, and in the end whatever someone picks, it's all as subjective as subjective can be. Anyway, Poem of the Week is onemorething's 'Mother Dies' and very nice to see something from one of our best poets again. Honourable mentions go to Simon Barget's Elk and Marandina's Ranthambore , which...

Thank you so much for all the wonderful stories and poems you've posted this week. A very strong week for poetry, and almost impossible to decide, but in the end I've gone with Di_Hard's beautiful inklings. Extremely honourable mentions go to Rhiannonw for On the 6500+ km journey, twice and Angusfolklore's For The Birds Our Story of the Week is jxmartin's Magic in a marble Read them all and you won't regret it! https://www.abctales.com/story/...

I am very pleased to announce the publication of Revelation: love and death, a poetry collection by David Lott who writes on ABCTales as Animan: Varied and lucid, the poems in this series depict a history, a journey. They begin with a portrayal of innocence, marked by a desire to please others and by a limited ability to understand and evaluate experience. Then, in part 2, they present moments of essentials and permanents, to serve as a...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 19 May 2023 Thanks again to everyone for another week of most enjoyable reading. Our Poem of the Week is skinner_jennifer's beautiful 'Miracle of Spring On Gossamer Wings'. Spring/early summer has yet to get going where I live, so it was lovely to lose myself in this meditation on each year's renewal of life: Miracle Of Spring On Gossamer Wings | ABCtales Story of the Week is 'Lucifer - What's good for the saucy...

Smokescreen, by ABCTales' own Ewan Lawrie has just been published! Here's what he says: A while back, I put a chapter or so of the very old Smokescreen on ABCTales. It started out as a Nanowrimo attempt sometime before 2009 (I can't even remember which year, it was so long ago). Anyway, after Nano, I tidied it up a bit and printed it via Bubok.es, as I was living in Spain at the time. It was a first effort at self-pubbing, when it was only just...

Our Picks of the Month for April have been chosen by airyfairy: It’s been lovely to look back at all the brilliant work that was put on the site during April. ABCTales is, I think, unique in the variety of material that we have, and in the feeling of community on the site. It’s always exciting to see new writers and to catch up with the work of regular contributors. None of which makes doing the Picks of the Month any easier! The poets have been...