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Our Story and Poem of the Month for March very kindly chosen by Jane Hyphen: After much enjoyment, reading and deliberating on the March contributions on ABC tales. My choices are as follows: Story of the Month goes to celticman's Windfall, this wonderful writing brings the memories of a childhood teacher into sharper and sharper focus until it just made my eyes water. Honourable mentions to marandina for the mysterious, York based tale of The...

Posted by onemorething: This week's Poem of the Week is socialeaf's very beautiful poem, The Red Kite. https://www.abctales.com/story/socialeaf/red-kite-bird-prey This week's Story of the Week is Ashton Macaulay's brilliant and frightening tale, There's a Pill for That. https://www.abctales.com/story/macashton/theres-pill This week's Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a great week everyone.

I'm very pleased to announce that our very own Ewan Lawrie's new novel Bronte's Inferno is available to order now! Publish and Be Damned The narrator is a frustrated novelist, published just twice, under different pseudonyms. Living hand to mouth on what little work he can get as a proof-reader and occasional editor, he lives on the edge of Brontë country in a small town in the Calder Valley. When approached by the mysterious Editor-in-Chief,...

Firstly this week, I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who's donated to our JustGiving account.

I'm delighted to annouce to Josiah and Archibald's many fans on ABCTales that you can now pre-order Book 4 in Phil Whiteland's Bring Out Your Dead series All Josiah and Archibald had to do was collect the late Sir Lewisham Carnock from his resting place in Alicante and escort him back to the U.K. Nothing could be simpler, could it? Well, yes, with Josiah and Archibald it could, particularly when an unfortunate turn of phrase leaves them marooned...

Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point 22 March 2024 Posted by Ewan Some very good writing indeed this week. Give yourselves a pat on the back for making this job as difficult as ever. Story of the Week I very much liked Starfish Girl’s The Spa . Equally good were Parts 1 & 2 of Blighter’s Rock’s The Plan. But in the end Celticman was in competition with himself – and not for the first time – with The Little Lady and the eventual...

Posted by airyfairy. Thank you to all our writers, as ever, for the marvellous work on the site this week. Our Story of the Week is a thank you to someone who has been at the very heart of ABC Tales. Jean D has been generous enough to share her journey through cancer with us, with her customary wit, warmth and talent. All of these things are in evidence in what, sadly, she has told us will be her final posting here. We shall miss you, Jean. The...

I'm very happy to announce that I'm a Woman by Mary-Ann Storm who writes on ABCTales as Mary-Ann is available now on Amazon Very apt for International Women's Day! Link to buy (Amazon): https://tinyurl.com/2d5pvd7y

Our Story and Poem of the Month for February, very kindly chosen by marandina: I’m not sure where the last year went but here I am with the monthly picks for the third February in a row. I figure that if I do this for long enough, eventually I will know what I’m doing… It feels like the world is even crazier since this time in 2023 with the conflict in Ukraine grinding ever on, a new, horrific warzone in Gaza, the cost of living crisis still...

Before I announce our Story and Poem of the Week, I'd like to remind you that AI assisted writing is not permitted on our site. While we obviously don't have a hard and fast method of weeding out writing that doesn't comply with our restrictions, our very clever and wonderful editors are pretty good at spotting something that doesn't seem quite right and these pieces of writing will not be considered for cherries or any other awards. While on...