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In July Marandina wrote to me to say that he'd submitted two of his short stories (his first submissions!) and that they'd both been accepted. Today, I'm very pleased to announce that the first of them is available from The Alien Buddha. Here are a couple of Amazon links to buy if you're in the UK: https://tinyurl.com/yjyddtsn https://tinyurl.com/bdz5fxmu A very big congratulations to Marandina from all of us at ABCTales!

Our Story and Poem of the Month for September have very kindly been chosen by Drew Gummerson: Story and Poem of month Well it’s an honour to be choosing September’s Story and Poem of the month and what a hard choice that was. Once again I am amazed by the talent on the site and by the real variety of pieces submitted. But choices I have made. In these turbulent times the Story of the Month goes to Mark Burrow and his Small Town Insurrection...

Thanks to all who've posted such brilliant pieces this week. They've been a pleasure to read. Thank you also to the editors who keep everything going. We couldn't do it without you. Very quickly before I tell you about the picks of the week, I spoke to Tony Cook the other day who you'll be pleased to hear sounds back to his normal jolly self after his couple of mini strokes - anyway he asked if we'd think of having another London reading night (...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 23 Sep 2022 We're living in a strange old world at the moment, one way and another, and our Story of the Week reflects this perfectly. Jane Hyphen's 'It's the year...' is sharply funny and surreal, and yet somehow all too believable. If you happen to know an Orca, now might be the time to start getting on the right side of it. It's the year. . . | ABCtales Our Poem of the Week takes the autumn equinox as its theme...