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Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by onemorething on Fri, 19 Nov 2021

It’s getting ever closer to winter and our Poem of the Week is a beautiful reminder of the season to come - Thoughts of an Oak Tree’s Spirit by skinner_jennifer. You can read it here: https://www.abctales.com/story/skinnerjennifer/thoughts-oak-trees-spirit Story of the Week is the very powerful and brilliantly written story, Wednesday Club, by celticman. You can read it here: https://www.abctales.com/story/celticman/wednesday-club This week’s...

ABCtales Critiquing Service - good reports!

Posted by tcook on Mon, 26 Mar 2012

Over the years many of you have asked for a critiquing service and it has taken a long time to find (a) someone good enough to do it well and (b) someone who will charge what we regard as a reasonable fee. Finally, we've done it! Lorraine Mace is a freelance writer, columnist and tutor for the Writers Bureau. Winner of the Petra Kenney International Poetry Competition (comic verse category), Lorraine's fiction, features and humour have appeared...

INFO+TIPS

Posted by Tom Brown on Sun, 13 Jul 2025

WHEN I GO TO SLEEP THE STATICS BURN ME THAT IS WHY I TAKE OFF THE JERSEY/S AND LEAVE THE HEATER ON IF YOU WANT THE TOILET EARLY MORNING FIRST MAKE A LITTLE NOISE IF I WAKE UP AND RUN JUST WAIT A LITTLE BIT OTHERWISE = IF I DONT WAKE FROM BLADDER IT SHOULD BE SAFE DENTURES = PLAY THE GAME I WOULD LOVE A CLEAN WINTER DUVET J. SCARES ME WHEN HE GETS ANGRY I JUST LOVE THE LUX GOODIES JELLY CURLS YOGHURT ANY THING AND EVERY LITTLE PRESENT EVERY...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 11 Jul 2025

Posted by airyfairy. Another engrossing week on ABC Tales, and it's been, as usual, very hard to make the Picks.

Reflections

Posted by Tom Brown on Tue, 08 Jul 2025

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Saint Omer (2022), BBC iPlayer, written by Alice Diop, Amrita David, Marie NDiaye and directed by Alice Diop.

Posted by celticman on Sat, 05 Jul 2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002f2ry/saint-omer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Omer_(film) Saint Omer is about infanticide. Not a promising premise for a film. But it won a stack of awards. Writer and director Alice Diop comes from a documentary background. Saint Omer, the film’s title is also a place name. Based on the real-life trial of Fabienne Kabou, who was convicted in 2016 of drowning her 15-month-old daughter in the...

Jesus Saves - What Are We Saved From?

Posted by mallisle on Tue, 01 Jul 2025

I remember seeing the car sticker in the 1970s, 'Jesus Saves.' I hadn't the faintest idea what it meant or what Jesus saved people from. All the time Christians talk about being saved. What does it mean? Saved from what? We are saved from sin. In order to fully understand the meaning of this we need to appreciate how sinful we are and why it really matters. Nobody's perfect. We have all broken God's laws. Our sin has taken away the close...

September in Reflection

Posted by memphis on Mon, 30 Jun 2025

September in Reflection Crystalline memories ripple cognitive waves. Fracture, long-term whispering thoughts colliding with A short-term fragment. Another cycle completes midnight, departure; to trace distant harmonies, twilight tones unfurling like smoke on a still lake. Amid lifeless noise, we seek our mind-vessels, Always returning to the broken pieces of ourselves. How can one escape this echo of misery? In the texture of the unknown, the...

When the Sun went down

Posted by memphis on Mon, 30 Jun 2025

When The Sun Went Down A lake of mirrors reflects an alchemical nature of silent ink. Always watching, with the eyes of the scorpion, the zodiac’s watchers. Nearby, the medicine wheel turns the snake dance, coiling wisdom, With a Marco Polo mind that seeks the unknown path. The Ayahuasca Elders, stone warriors of the Buffalo brigade. Now summon the drums, ancient voices in the rhythm of the mirrors Lake. Echoes of those who once danced with...

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