Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 19 Dec 2025

These are the final Picks of the Week before Christmas so I've put some lights up to make things a bit festive!

I'd also like to wish you a happy Christmas and to say a very big thank you to all ABCTalers, especially the lovely editors for giving up their time to help make ABCTales what it is. 

We have had such a wonderful selection of prose this week it's been exceptionally hard to choose one in particular. I have two honourable mentions:

beanzie for his just completed My Dinosaur Era:

https://www.abctales.com/story/beanzie/my-dinosaur-era-chapter-52-epilogue

and Terrence Oblong who makes a very welcome return to ABCTales with Taking a Dalek up the Stairs:

https://www.abctales.com/story/terrence-oblong/taking-dalek-stairs

 

My choice for Story of the Week goes to Turlough for his moving and very funny child's eye view of growing up in Ireland - A Hare's Breath - the Dark Hedges:

https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/hares-breath-5-dark-hedges

 

Poem of the Week goes to another welcome returnee, Gloskat, for her very funny Elaine:

https://www.abctales.com/story/gloskat/elaine

 

If you're looking for something to read with your mince pies none of the above will disappoint!

 

Here's the new Inspiration Point:

 

https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip

 

Happy Christmas to you all smiley

 

Christmassy lights picture credit:https: //tinyurl.com/yeh43jk9

Comments

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you too IPFN. The time and effort that you put into keeping our wonderful community running smoothly, and to such a high standard, always amazes me. Without you I wonder if this would be possible.

Good on you! You're greatly appreciated.

Turlough

Submitted by insertponceyfre... on

Thank you very much Turlough!