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Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 20 Mar 2026

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point posted by di_hard Thank You so much for all your wonderful writing! First off, I cannot recommend highly enough that you check out Penny4athought's brilliant writing challenge, which has, already, inspired two FABULOUS entries, from Celticman and Luigi https://www.abctales.com/story/penny4athought/pennys-pass-story https://www.abctales.com/story/celticman/penny%E2%80%99s-pass-parcel%E2%... https...

Teeth Tales - The Results!

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Tue, 17 Mar 2026

Posted by airyfairy Many, many thanks to all who entered the Teeth Tales competition, and to ScoZen for setting it and for letting me judge it! A very pleasurable task – it’s obviously a subject that both recalls funny situations and produces some wild flights of fancy. Thanks again to everyone! The Gold Medal goes to SoulFire77’s ‘Ratoncito Perez Is Not A Fairy’. As a Fairy, I will overlook the odd disparaging remark about my kind, because this...

New Writing Challenge Alert! Penny's Pass The Story

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Mon, 16 Mar 2026

Penny’s Pass the Story I’m delighted to introduce our shiny new writing challenge. Our very own Penny4athought will donate $50 to ABCTales if we can finish her story in ten parts. How it works: Penny has posted the first part here and celticman has taken up the baton! https://www.abctales.com/story/penny4athought/pennys-pass-story To be next in line to do a part of the story, you will need to comment under the previous part and it'll be first...

Dead Letters: "The Woman Who Wasn't There"

Posted by SoulFire77 on Mon, 16 Mar 2026

Filed by Fletcher Moody — Literary Correspondent My editor sent me to Harrogate to find Agatha Christie. This was December 1926, and the woman had been missing for ten days. Her Morris Cowley had been found abandoned at Newlands Corner in Surrey — headlights on, fur coat on the seat, no driver. Over a thousand police officers were searching. Fifteen thousand volunteers were combing the countryside. The Home Secretary was demanding daily updates...

Raynor Winn (2018) The Salt Path

Posted by celticman on Sun, 15 Mar 2026

A writer’s job is simple as Satan testing Job. Take everything away and have the protagonist curse god (and die). Nobody much likes happy endings in The Bible or good books generally unless there’s been boils, blood, sweat and tears. Even then, somebody is going to get crucified. Tick list. Ray loses her home. Her husband, Moth has been casually told the good news from a medical specialist that they’ve identified his illness. A terminal,...

Julie R Brown (2021) Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story

Posted by celticman on Fri, 13 Mar 2026

A simple way to think about Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story is True Perversion of Justice: The Donald J. Trump Story. In interviews the 47 th United States President between berating those that denied him the Nobel Peace Prize and starting his latest war with Iran finds time to comment on release of the latest batch of files relating to Jeffrey Epstein. This is a subject he his intimate and expert knowledge, the kind he claims...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 13 Mar 2026

Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who's entered ScoZen's Teeth Tales writing challenge. There have been some excellent entries so far and you have until Sunday March 16th to enter, after which a GENUINE FAIRY (our airyfairy) will wave her wand and tell us who the winners are. On Monday our brand new writing challenge will be launched so keep an eye out for the announcement - it's a very exciting one! Thank you all for your contributions to...

Rosaleen McDonagh (2021) Unsettled.

Posted by celticman on Tue, 10 Mar 2026

Who are you and what are you? Rosaleen McDonagh’s collection of essays attempts to answer that question. ‘Unsettled’ is the title. The paradox: those she tries to unsettle don’t read books much and certainly don’t read books about ingrained prejudices with words like ‘intersectionality’, racism, ableism, and institutional abuse. Can you be made to care? The answer is no as McDonagh shows again and again. The shame is not hers but ours. But if we...

Pre-orders available for Family Man - The third book of Aldo

Posted by colin.b on Mon, 09 Mar 2026

Hey everyone, Pre-orders are now available for my upcoming novel Family Man. The book will be published next month. If you fancy bagging yourself a copy the book can pre-ordered on Amazon. The cover reveal won't be until next week. Book Synopsis: Adolfo Ali makes his long-awaited return in this fast-moving and unpredictable third outing. Complex anti-hero, Aldo, is the de facto head of Edinburgh’s most powerful crime family. But being a crime...

Phishing Alert

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Mon, 09 Mar 2026

Ewan has asked me to make sure you've all seen this: I don't know if it's just me (although I'm sure it isn't), but is anyone else's inbox stuffed full of emails like this? Hello Dear Author, After careful evaluation this month, your book has been identified as a strong candidate for our 2026 Book of the Week program. We would be pleased to highlight your title across our platform, positioning it directly in front of our engaged readership and...

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