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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;

Our Story and Poem of the Month for August, very kindly chosen by hudsonmoon:

Posted by airyfairy. Thank you to all our writers for another wonderful week of contributions. Our Story of the Week is is blackjack-davey's haunting 'Funny billies'. Wonderful writing, a haunting theme, and an ending both disturbing and beautiful: Funny billies | ABCtales Poem of the Week is Ewan's 'For Whom The Bell Tolls (The Centre Seethes)'. Again, wonderfully written and very disturbing, for very different reasons: For Whom The Bell Tolls...

Thanks to everyone who's posted their stories and poems this week. As always, very hard to choose my favourites but here goes: Story of the Week is Lille Dante's breathtaking sweep of a story 'The Boy With The Telescope' Poem of the Week goes to Lenchenelf for her wonderful 'Lit' https://www.abctales.com/story/lille-dante/boy-telescope https://www.abctales.com/story/lenchenelf/lit Big congratulations to both! Here's the new Inspiration Point:...

Posted by onemorething. Picks of the Week, this week, go to two pieces that are both brilliantly written and also very moving. Poem of the Week is JupiterMoon's last orders at 'the weekend dad'. https://www.abctales.com/story/jupitermoon/last-orders-weekend-dad Our Story of the Week is Lille Dante's A Tale of Four Stones. https://www.abctales.com/story/lille-dante/tale-four-stones This week's Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/...

I'm very pleased to announce that One Night At Kedasi by Ashton Macaulay will be out on September 23rd. Ashton writes for ABCTales as mac_ashton and the story was originally posted on our site. If you'd like to pre-order a copy, you'll find the link included in this review by Ewan: One Night At Kedasi by Ashton Macaulay Shadow Dragon Press ISBN 1963832345 Sci-Fi, Space Mercenaries, humour and bugs. Or for some of us, creepy-crawlies. Massive...

Thanks to everyone who's posted their wonderful stories and poems on ABCTales this week and for your kindness in leaving comments on other people's work. My choices for our Story and Poem of the Week are as follows: Story of the Week goes to G M Backland for Worst Case Scenario - Being Peter to Save Paul (Part Two). This is, as hudsonmoon says in his comment 'insanely funny' and If it isn't picked up by a publisher once finished I'll eat my hat...

Posted by airyfairy. Really difficult to make the Picks this week. I've read and re-read, and in the end it just came down to the finest of margins. Story of the Week is the second chapter of mac_ashton's 'MARKeting'. Welcome to the world of office drones in the not too distant future! It made me laugh, and also gave me nightmare flashbacks to my own time having to be Appraised and listen to Office Speak. You have been warned... MARKeting (2) |...

It is with very great sadness that I have to announce the death of our very own Coral who wrote for ABCTales as Seashore Coral was a Trustee of ABCTales, as well as a hugely supportive and generous friend to the site. She was a very talented artist and writer and a great advocate for her late daughter Julia who also wrote for ABCTales under the name Overthetop1. You can read their work here: https://www.abctales.com/user/seashore https://www...