22.02.14 Story, Poem and Inspiration Point of the Week

Well we have some fantastic picks for you this week!

Our story of the week is an ABC debut, from new author TFH. ‘The Late Bus’ is a sophisticated and psychologically charged story about a middle-aged autistic man taking his aging mother on a trip to Lancaster. When she dies he is unable to feel any emotion – and the work that results is a fascinated window into a different kind of mind. An outstanding debut and the first, I hope of many:

http://www.abctales.com/story/tfh/late-bus

Our poem of the week is Scratch’s 2 AM. Scratch has been back at the poetry, after a long hiatus, and the pieces he’s been coming up with are utterly fantastic. 2 AM is deceptively simple – a late-night scene in a donair shop – but there’s something about the tone, the vague mournful lilt in the narration, that made this piece resound into something like a critique of Western society as a whole. Maybe it’s just a piece about a kebab shop, but either way this is one that really hit me:

http://www.abctales.com/story/scratch/2-am

And our inspiration point is a bit of wishful thinking for mid-winter,=; hopefully it’ll give some of you a starting point for a piece – or at the very least one half of a metaphor:

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