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!
Storms
*** When we were kids we watched in awe. ***
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- 4927 reads
The Lookout Boy
No blood relation. Sentry at the gatehouse of some vast and rambling estate. His wife had followed him down through the years, held the front-line in...
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- 7474 reads
William's Powder Keg
I have now published a novel length version of this story, titled Jacob's Powder Keg, available on Amazon under my penname Mitchell Jamal Franco.
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- 4733 reads
DOLLY'S ROOM
Doris had always loved dolls. They were her babies, she said. She had never married, although she had once been engaged to a pilot, who had been...
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- 5107 reads
post down the line
We grew up, lips leerin’ The whistle went son, the game begins Once round, no-man’s again Barbed wire, no-holds quintain Drilling, dodging, filthy...
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- 7244 reads
White Feather
He gets off the bus, left leg first, always left leg first. It isn't far to the entrance of Green Park and it is a sunny day. It has been raining for...
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- 1773 reads
FRAMED
There is a picture in a silver frame - My Grandparents on their wedding day; And a metal box with water stains That still retains the pungent smell...
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- 9686 reads
Caring
' ...looks like it's down to me to show you around...! I've only got ten minutes left of my shift then I'm into overtime! Management won't be happy...
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- 2991 reads
Icarus Falling
The smell of aviation fuel and the throaty sound of the Le Rhône engine on start-up was the best part of any sortie, Fawcett believed. 'The promise...
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- 7172 reads
Class warfare, 1916
Jackie and Cedric are both WWI soldiers who have spent their 24-hour leave in Paris. But there is a difference: Cedric is the son of a Marquis and lives in a huge draughty stately home, while Jackie is the son of a railway official. They exchange their experiences of the last 24 hours as they travel back to the Somme.
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- 2264 reads