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This week’s picks have been chosen by marandina: It’s been another scorching week on the weather front so reading everyone’s stories and poems in the cool shade has been something of a guilty pleasure. As ever, thank you to everyone who posted. My highly recommended stories are: I’ve enjoyed following Eric Marsh’s latest work 'Amandarella and the Disappearing Vicar' at: https://www.abctales.com/story/eric-marsh/amanderella-and-mystery-...

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point posted by di-hard Thank You so much to all of you who posted wonderful work and comments this week. Once again, it has been really hard choosing only one story and poem, there has been such a wide variety of writing to enjoy! Here are a only a few examples : Marandina finishes his first novel : https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-30 Unni Kumaran's calm take on a...

Posted by airyfairy. I hope everybody's had a good week and you haven't completely melted! Story of the Week is wonderful piece by LizF, 'Transient Debris'. It's a short story that rushes nothing, drawing the reader into the character's world step by step, until you are completely there with her, and then, heartbreakingly, it takes you back out. A thoroughly involving read: https://www.abctales.com/story/lizf/transient-debris Poem of the Week is...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for June has very kindly been chosen by Drew Gummerson.

A very big thank you to everyone who's posted their wonderful stories and poems on ABCTales this week - it's been such a pleasure to see the fruits of your labour We have had some real treats in the prose department and it was exceptionally hard to pick one from all the others. I have a few honourable mentions to make: The continuation of airfairy's Somewhere: https://www.abctales.com/story/airyfairy/somewhere-chapter-3-pt-1 Eric Marsh's...

This week’s picks have been chosen by marandina: A week brimming with great stories and poems. Thank you to everyone for their contributions. Highly recommended stories: https://www.abctales.com/story/soulfire77/less-miserables-break-board-1 https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/strimmer-time-and-living-easy https://www.abctales.com/story/mark-p/train-glasgow1984-time-tunnel-5 https://www.abctales.com/story/alexander-moore/brothers https://www...

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point posted by di-hard Thank You so much for the fabulous writing posted this week. There are too many wonderful stories, in particular, to highlight them all, but as a sample if you haven't already, please check out the work of Eric Marsh, who is every day posting most enjoyable instalments in his Dragons' Lair stories for children, also Amandarella and the Haunted Mill. Here's a link to today's...