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Our Story and Poem of the Month for July, very kindly chosen by Mark Say: Picks of the Month July 2025 Poem I wasn’t looking for it, but sadness seemed to be a strong theme in the stand-out poems this month, and the efforts to convey more painful emotions touched me strongly. For poem of the month I’ve opted for The Daughter-Wife by misskelizabeth. It conveys the pressures of a tragic, grief affected childhood, with some short and powerful...

Posted by onemorething: This week's Story of the Week is G M Backland's excellent and very funny Part 1 of Worst Case Scenario. https://www.abctales.com/story/g-m-backland/worst-case-scenario-being-peter-save-paul-part-one This week's Poem of the Week is the very lovely and thoughtful, You are, by samhennig. https://www.abctales.com/story/samhennig/you-are Our Inspiration Point for the week is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip...

It's been a wonderful week for prose and poetry on ABCTales - a very big thank you to everyone who's posted their work and given encouragement to others with their comments My choices for this week are as follows: Story of the Week goes to Jane Hyphen for her brilliant two parter The Irritating Gentleman'. I hope to see this one disappear soon when it gets submitted for publication, so read it while it's still here! https://www.abctales.com/...

Posted by airyfairy. Another engrossing week on ABC Tales, and it's been, as usual, very hard to make the Picks.

Posted by onemorething: This week's Poem of the Week is Turlough's brilliant and powerful poem, Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table. https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/fifty-one-empty-places-dinner-table This week's Story of the Week is Ghigau 4 by w.w.j.abercrombie. https://www.abctales.com/story/wwjabercrombie/ghigau-4 Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a lovely weekend.

Jack has written to me to let me know that he's deleted his account. He's asked me to share with everyone his appreciation and thanks for everything, so I am!

Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful pieces of writing you've posted this week, also for the support you give each other - there's nothing more valuable than letting someone know you've enjoyed something, or offering suggestions as to how they might improve My choices for this week are as follows: Story of the Week goes to RJF for their enchanting 'While the Lion Sleeps', and our Poem of the Week is Ralph's 'The Editor' which packs a punch...

Posted by airyfairy. Hope everyone has had a good week, and enjoyed all the wonderful stuff on ABC Tales as much as I have.

Our Story and Poem of the Month for May, very kindly chosen by Di_Hard: It is great to have so many superlative pieces of writing to read this month, but it makes choosing only one poem and story much harder, and I am so sorry I could not list everything I loved. Here are a few examples : As well as completing her (definitely should be published) Parcel For You, Jane Hyphen gave us this magical first day in a new job : https://www.abctales.com/...