ABCtales 2016 London Competition
The details of our fantastic new competition can be found here:
http://www.abctales.com/blog/tcook/new-abctales-competition
Best of luck to all entrants!
"Oh, It's a Lovely War!"
A fiddler plays The Twelfth Street Rag, wives and husbands clap their hands...
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- 6431 reads
War of Sounds
Drip Drop Drip Is that the sound of squalid rainwater Running through the mud in torrents Or the steady beat of spilled blood Writing my comrades...
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- 3274 reads
The Lost Generation
After the endless cacophony of dying a silence is born. Expression lacks point. Our words do not encompass the shape of a trench or shell blast's...
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- 1436 reads
Looking Ahead, Looking Back
1914 "100 years on what will have become of our heirs, if the Kaiser’s troops overrun? … 2014 100 years gone: we look at the war at mistakes and such loss and with hindsight see more, appalled at the gore …
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- 2484 reads
Wars Kill People...Don't They?
Wars Kill People…Don’t They? 320 words To die for one’s country, Is a beautiful and fitting thing. They were words I once heard, But it’s not a song...
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- 3791 reads
Home!
Home! 220 words I waited for him to come home, As he promised that he would. He’d gone to fight in the war, Not that it did anyone any good. War ends...
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- 2069 reads
The World at War!
World at War! 2319 words ‘Get yourself down to the recruiting office you’re no use on the farm.’ said Squire. ‘Your country needs you. I shouldn’t...
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- 2923 reads
Battle Cries
*** Echoes of familiar voices ***
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- 21303 reads
Mud brothers
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- 3225 reads
Brave
*** The whole time, I kept thinking - I'm next! ***
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- 1522 reads