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Posted by Philip Sidney on Fri, 02 Aug 2019 What a week for ranting - i'm in a particularly ranty mood myself so took great pleasure in the green calm of Di Hard's delectable and thought-provoking poem https://www.abctales.com/story/dihard/grassjuly - it's our poem of the week. I really enjoyed the discussion of the possible reading of this poem too - it would be wonderful to hear our writers reading their work. I would love to hear Hudson Moon...

Once again another very difficult choice - particlarly with poetry this week - we have been inundated with some very special pieces. Story of the Week goes to airyfairy's very funny 'Pad Life: Cyber Tranche' with a strong recommendation to read the continuation of canonette's 'Looking For Andrew' which was last week's pick. Poem of the Week - like I said earlier was very hard but I am giving it to skinner_jennifer, one of our stalwarts who not...

Posted by Philip Sidney on Fri, 19 Jul 2019 So many wonderful pieces this week - how to narrow it down to two picks? It's been tough but I had to go for Canonette's moving journal, 'Looking for Andrew', for story of the week - it's a must read: https://www.abctales.com/story/canonette/looking-andrew-journal-1 Poem of the week was equally difficult - but Socialeaf's, 'Monet's Sea', is the chosen piece: https://www.abctales.com/story/socialeaf/...

We have so much wonderful poetry on ABCTales that's specific to particular places, I thought this might be of interest to some of you: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/18/a-unique-and-slightly-mad-...

What a week it's been for cherries - I've had to scroll through pages of them! My choice for Story of the Week is quite a long one but please don't let that put you off - it's one of the best things I've read on ABCTales for a while: 'All Architects Are Called Zach' by Mark Burrow. My Poem of the Week is the beautiful 'XIX' by john_silver. Big congratulations to both! https://www.abctales.com/story/johnsilver/xix https://www.abctales.com/story/...

June's Story and Poem of the Month, very kindly chosen by Hudsonmoon: Picks of the month are never easy. And June proved difficult. So many tasty things out there. But the following two seemed to linger the most in my somewhat scattered mind. They're both pretty wonderful. Prose of the month honors go to celticman's Puddle Land celticman's tale haunted me a bit. Not in a scary sort of way, though. (Okay, the guillemot in the baby crib did freak...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 05 Jul 2019 Amongst the riches on the site this week, two in particular stood out for me from the moment I read them. Story of the Week is Ball Bearing from ice rivers. A funny, reflective tale of a friendship, a fibre optic bear and the dynamics of the office Christmas Party: https://www.abctales.com/story/ice-rivers/ball-bearing Poem of the Week is the stunning Everyone Remembers Everything Eventually, by lavadis...

Posted by airyfairy on Tue, 02 Jul 2019 Many apologies for the downtime on the site today. What was supposed to be a very brief bit of maintenance - literally minutes - got a bit more complicated and so we have been down for most of the day. Thank you for your patience. airyfairy's blog

Posted by Philip Sidney on Fri, 21 Jun 2019 Summer's been a bit of a wash-out but everything in the ABCtales' garden is rosy. I've gone for a clutch of pieces that didn't get the golden cherries in the week but are no less deserving for that. First-up, a lovely piece of nature writing from Di-Hard is our poem of the week: https://www.abctales.com/story/dihard/18th-june-woods-and-back Story of the week is one that spoke to me for lots of reasons...

What a wealth of treasures posted this week - I think the rain must have inspired you all! Story of the week goes to celticman (who is on a roll at the moment) for ' Puddle of Land' and our Poem of the Week is Ewan's ' Quincite'- both brilliant so do read and share: puddle-land quincite Here's this week's Inspiration Point: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip I hope you all have a great weekend!