Pick of the day

Frugal Schmoogal

I hate no spend month.  It has very little to do with saving money.  It’s a ploy, showing up all your self-defeating, deflecting, sublimating, time-wasting habitual ways to make yourself feel better.  For an instant.  Or to avoid doing what you know you need to be doing, like feeling your feelings, or painting the utility room ceiling.  (The painting is satisfying, but prepping the surfaces just makes me want to take a big nap). 

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Story of the week

The Lilliputians in the vegetable patch - IP

In literature, we often stumble across inventions—names, ideas, phrases—that bRead more

Poem of the week

The Old Man and the Libyan Sea

A whimsical look at my involvement in the world during the first half of September 2024, at the rate of 100 words per day.

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Features

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by onemorething:

 

Happy Friday and thanks again for all the wonderful writing that's shared every week on the site. 
 

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Bloody Scotland - Update!

As you know, our very own celticman - Jack O'Donnell - was star of the show at Bloody Scotland which is Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival. Here's what happened in his own words:

 

Bloody Scotland, 14th September 2024

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Story and Poem of the Month

Our Story and Poem of the Month for August, very kindly chosen by Mark Burrow, and apologies for the lateness of this which you can blame on good old Greater Anglia Railway:

 

It’s been another excellent month of stories and poems on ABCtales.

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Mr Martinez by Ewan Lawrie - Out Now!

I'm very pleased to announce that Ewan Lawrie's new novel, Mr Martinez has just been published!

You can order it here on Amazon:

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Want to join ABCTales?

We've had to suspend the automatic joining facility for a while so if you would like to join us please email 

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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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Bee's Journey

Picks of the Month

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024

(with apologies to Craig Raine)

Smart-phones are electronic gadgets with many apps.

Humans treasure them for their frivolousness.

They cause attention deficit addiction disorder

and make humans to do strange things, like dress

up as dogs to film themselves, or climb high

buildings and fall off.

 

I have never seen one fly - except

when the battery dies.

 

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A Year with the Brighouse Stars Walking Club (December)

December

So Gordon then.

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