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!
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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THE SEEDS OF PEACE
In ancient times sweet flowers grew White as the snow, fresh as the dew; They wove them into garlands then For maids to wear on long fair hair when...
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Trench Feet
Mother was pleased that Father was dead, because the thought of me getting divorced from a wonderful girl that had given me everything and three...
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The moon-men
He’d been standing watch for hours; his legs aching from crouching and from stumbling over shell shattered duckboards and wading through thick,...
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Upturned
I am suffering in hell; sinking in sludge and mud. Christ! Bombarded by shells; sometimes drowned in a flood; trapped among hairy rats; my clothes...
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An Indecorous Sweetness
It conjures bloodied mud and men, yet there were sunny days, and grass and flowers grew between shell holes and trenches. Blue skies stretched over...
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