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A very big thank you to everyone who's contributed to ABCTales this week - you are what makes our site so special. In difficult times we need humour more than ever and my choice for Poem of the Week goes to Lou Blodgett for his brilliant 'I Believe in Frogs'. https://www.abctales.com/story/lou-blodgett/i-believe-frogs Our Story of the Week goes to Beanzie whose work in progress, now called My Dinosaur Era is going from strength to strength. Here...

Posted by onemorething: Our Story of the Week is Turlough's wonderful Finding Fionnuala. It's a fabulous read. https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/finding-fionnuala Our Poem of the Week is JupiterMoon's beautiful and evocative mother hill. https://www.abctales.com/story/jupitermoon/mother-hill Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a great weekend.

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Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point, posted with huge apologies for the lateness, by di-hard Thank you very much to everyone who has posted their work this week; though making the choice so difficult, it is a great privilege. Story of the Week is this luscious and intense piece by Vera Clark : https://www.abctales.com/story/veraclark/please-follow-my-instructions-y... Poem of the Week is deceptively simple, wonderfully vivid and...

Story and Poem of the Month for September

Posted by airyfairy. Welcome to cold and rainy October! Fortunately there's been lots of splendid stuff on ABC to take our minds off it. Our Story of the Week is Caldwell's darkly funny 'Trump Reads Hansel and Gretel'. As one commenter observed, laughter in the dark is the most precious. Also, the author perfectly captures the tone of his narrator. It's a brilliant response to last week's Inspiration Point: Trump reads Hansel and Gretel |...

Story and Poem of the Week

Posted by onemorething: This week's Poem of the Week is Santarcangelo di Romagna by MistakenMagic. It's from her new collection and it's a wonderful poem. https://www.abctales.com/story/mistakenmagic/santarcangelo-di-romagna This week's Story of the Week is jolono's Life of Jim. Brilliant writing. https://www.abctales.com/story/jolono/life-jim-part-4 This week's Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a...

Story and Poem of the Week,and Inspiration Point posted by di_hard Once again, there has been such fabulous and varied writing this week! Thank you so much to all who have posted your work. So many pieces are staggeringly good. Here are a few highly recommended : https://www.abctales.com/story/caldwell/sandwiches-wittgenstein-and-log https://www.abctales.com/story/jane-hyphen/tiny-easter-teddy https://www.abctales.com/story/j-stapleton/patrolman...

I am delighted to announce that Bex Haindsworth (our very own Mistaken Magic)'s Circulaire is out now and available to order from the link below, along with a review by marandina;