Pick of the day
A Halloween Tale: Chapter 1
Posted by jnlhill3 on Wed, 29 Oct 2025
A Grieving Mother’s Plan For Her Dead Daughter’s Spirit
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 1
Posted by beanzie on Sun, 19 Oct 2025
I took these down as I wansn't 100% happy with them and also wanted a working title. This is 2nd draft stuff.Read morePoem of the week
I Believe In Frogs
Posted by Lou Blodgett on Mon, 20 Oct 2025
An emphatic affirmation of my new found faith in frogs.
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The Paper Over The Cracks by Ewan Lawrie
I'm very pleased to announce that Ewan Lawrie's third poetry collection is now available. Here's what he says:
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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.
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Poetry Book Awards Children's Poetry Prize
I am delighted to announce that our very own Catherine Poarch is the winner of the inaugural Children's Poetry Prize from the Poetry Book Awards!
You can read all about it here:
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Our Story and Poem of the Month for September, very kindly chosen by Ewan:
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Posting From Your Android Phone - Fixed!
Some of you have been having issues with posting your work using an android phone. Ewan and John our techie have been working really hard to fix this.
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Picks of the Month
Welsh Lessons-1
Posted by Ivan the OK-ish on Mon, 29 Sep 2025
WELSH LESSONS
April 1975, on the waste ground where the old abattoir used to be
“S’mae?”
“Sorry, don’t speak Welsh.”
“Just means ‘How’s things? We all say it here.”
“You Welsh?”
“No. But I’ve lived here almost all my life. I’m Nicholas…Nick, by the way. You’re Janice?”
“Guess everybody in the village knows that. Are we the first in this place?”
“First what?”
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