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Well, it's the last day of May and it's 14 degrees here which doesn't seem at all fair really, but BBC weather assures me that tomorrow will be nicer, so in the meantime it's been very nice to go through all the wonderful prose and poetry you've posted this week. Thank you for each and every one. My choices for Story and Poem of the Week are as follows: Story of the week is a wonderful dip into 1970s England by Turlough, 'Bill or Bob?' and Poem...

Firstly some rather sombre news

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who came to our reading event last night. The rest of the world may be going down the plughole but ABCTales reading events are still fabulous. No-one had a dodgy connection or any microphone malfunctions which I think was a first! We heard some old favourites and some new unpublished work and every single piece was a gem. It was a brilliant evening! Thank you to our exceptionally talented readers...

Finally, sunshine. This week's Story of the Week is purplehaze's 'Sounds Like They're Saying Words' - it's wonderful and I heartily approve of all dawns and birdsong. https://www.abctales.com/story/purplehaze/sounds-theyre-saying-words This week's Poem of the Week is Ralph's poem, The Rower. Brilliant use of language and also the basis of our new Inspiration Point. https://www.abctales.com/story/ralph/rower-after-philip-larkin%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for April, very kindly chosen by Drew Gummerson An honour, as always, and a pleasure, to be the one doing the Picks of the Month. I’ll be brief. So here we go. Story. I like it when people place their continuing stories here on ABCTales and we are blessed this month to have two by two of our outstanding talents. Jane Hyphen’s Parcel for You continues to impress. https://www.abctales.com/story/jane-hyphen/parcel-...

Chosen by Di_Hard Thankyou so much to everyone who has posted their writing this week, it has been a huge pleasure reading so many great Stories and Poems. Pick of the Week for Poems goes to Ed Crane's erudite and thought provoking Still Life: https://www.abctales.com/story/ed-crane/still-life On a related theme I would also like to recommmend Turlough's wonderful Turn and Face The Strange: https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/turn-and-face-...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 26 Apr 2024 As always, some amazing writing on the site this week, and it's been a hard but very pleasurable task choosing the Picks. Story of the Week is from the wonderful celticman. Characters so vivid you can (quite often) smell them, and dialogue most of us would kill to be able to write. 'Sean Happens 3' is another slice of Glasgow life, and if you haven't read any of celtic's stuff before, this is a great place...

Posted by Di_Hard Wonderful variety of writing this week, I have really enjoyed reading them all! After whittling and whittling, Story of the Week is Turlough's latest diary entry, including the arrival of storks and the discovery that it's lucky to stand in dog shit on the first of the month: https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/sort-thing-march-2024-la-finale Poem of the Week is a gorgeous description of this time of year from Hoalarg:...

I'm very pleased to announce that the readers list is now full! It's going to be a wonderful evening with some brilliant readers, new and old. Thank you all so much for registering! There is still room to be in the audience but you will have to register using the link below We have had a slight organisational hiccup and the link to register has now changed. I'll be emailing everyone on our previous list, but you will all need to re-register...