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Our Story and Poem of the Month for December, very kindly chosen by Ewan Pick of the Month December 2024 The New Year is upon us as you read this: December is often a fecund month for ABCTalers, particularly in the run up to the festive season. This year is no exception. However, despite all choices for accolades from red cherries to Pick of the Month to being entirely subjective, every contributor is valued for their own sake. I admire all of...

Pick of the Week and Inspiration Point chosen by di_hard Happy New Year to all you wonderful Writers and Readers on ABCTales! I hope you all had a good Christmas, and are raring to go with your literary talents in 2025! This week's Highly Recommended Poem is from Rhiannon, another of her genius children's rhymes, please try reading it out loud : https://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/rustle Highly Recomended Story is from brilliant author...

I hope you all had/are having a wonderful Christmas break, and that Father Christmas brought you everything you wished for. We've had some wonderful things posted this week - thank you so much for sharing them! It was particularly hard to decide on our Story of the Week, but I'm going to go with Jane Hyphen's very funny and original Planet Secret Santa Our Poem of the Week goes to Angus Folklore's wonderful The Border Ballads https://www...

Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point chosen this week by di_hard Opening this Treasure Chest of ABCTales, again and again every reader will be struck by the variety of gems within, all different, all of value in their own way. As ever, too many to list, but enjoyed by this reader, so Thank You very much for posting Some of my favourites are : This beautiful diary entry from HarryC : https://www.abctales.com/story/harryc/gift-sons-...

Posted by airyfairy. Another lovely week on ABC Tales! As always it's been a hard job making the selections, but a very enjoyable one as well.

Our Story and Poem for the Month of November, very kindly chosen for us by Turlough ABC Tales Story and Poem of the Month for November I’ve enjoyed picking out November’s poem and story of the month but I’m glad I don’t have to do it every month because the mountain of excellent writing to choose from makes it an extraordinarily difficult task. Congratulations from me to the writers of all the pieces I have selected, and apologies to those I’ve...

Posted by airyfairy. I hope that none of the various storms rampaging around have caused too much havoc for people. There's been lots of lovely writing on here to take our minds off it all.

Very big congratulations to Drew Gummerson whose new book Saltburn, has a publishing date and can be pre-ordered on the link below. Here's what Drew says: Saltburn. I started Saltburn here on ABCTales in the first week of 2020. In February 2025 it’s going to be published. This is the story. I’m usually terrible at remembering dates. But in 2019 I was writing Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel, also posting it here, and I remember I wanted to...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point, posted by Di_Hard Thank you so much for all the wonderful writing this week! Two powerful pieces of prose have really stood out for me - Turlough combines being (surely) one of the world's best listeners with easygoing profundity in his travel writing. In this account of a visit to an antique shop in Serbia, he has given me a new understanding of that country's recent history : https://www...

Posted by airyfairy. Thank you to everyone for the lovely contributions to ABC this week! Story of the Week is Ewan's 'Message: Post Scriptum'. It's very funny, surreal, and of course totally unrelated to events in the real world. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Message : Post Scriptum | ABCtales Poem of the Week is Angus Folklore's stunning 'East Coast Scotland (Reflection). It combines history, myth, and wonderful observation of 'the sea...