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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;

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/...