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Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 02 May 2025

Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point chosen by di-hard What a time for fabulous writing this week has been! Thank you so much to everyone who has added to this wonderful variety. D.G. Moody's poem cleverly describes two different scenes, two different times : https://www.abctales.com/story/d-g-moody/dont-look Rhiannon evokes the sight and smell of wild garlic in these beautiful lines : https://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/wild-...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 25 Apr 2025

Posted by onemorething: Another wonderful week of writing on ABCtales. Our Poem of the Week is a very beautiful poem by Yutka, I am the stillness. https://www.abctales.com/story/yutka/i-am-stillness Our Story of the Week is hudsonmoon's very clever and funny, J.C Jones II The Podcast. https://www.abctales.com/story/hudsonmoon/j-c-jones-ii-podcast Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a good weekend...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 18 Apr 2025

Firstly I'd like to wish a warm welcome to our new members (we've had a small flurry) and to thank you for joining us. I hope you enjoy your time here. What a week it's been for ABCTales! We've had so many wonderful poems and stories posted - thank you so much for all of them and for the time you've all taken to leave comments for others' work. It makes such a difference to our writers and poets to know their contributions are appreciated. It's...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 11 Apr 2025

Posted by airyfairy. Our Story of the Week is Tipp Hex's brilliant 'The Missing'. A splendid piece of really taut noir, with a hint of something darker still, it gripped me from the first word to the last, and left a very distinct chill up my spine: The Missing | ABCtales Poem of the Week is Schubert's dark, wry and funny 'Six Thirty-Two'. A truly inspired response to last week's Inspiration Point! Six Thirty-Two | ABCtales This week's...

Story and Poem of the Month

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Sun, 06 Apr 2025

Our Story and Poem of the Month for March, very kindly chosen by onemorething: Reading what’s posted on the site for a month really does give you a sense of the huge range of wonderful writing on ABCtales. And this makes it very hard indeed to choose just one Poem and Story for Pick of the Month. Our Story of the Month is Sooz006’s The Book. Sooz006 has been posting chapters throughout the month, luckily for us. It’s gripping, chilling and...

Saltburn by Drew Gummerson - Out Now! Link to buy plus a review

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 28 Mar 2025

I'm very pleased to announce that Saltburn, by our very own Drew Gummerson is out now and available to buy here: https://haywoodbooks.com/saltburn May the residents of the real Saltburn-by-the-Sea and neighbouring towns forgive my mermaids, my nuclear power stations, my foetus museums and so on and so on. They were written with love. Welcome to Saltburn, an extraordinary town on the English coast with sweeping poverty and nuclear fallout, where...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Posted by onemorething: Evening all, happy Friday. Our Poem of the Week, this week, is Queen Beatle's excellent Heddiw, dim byd newydd. https://www.abctales.com/story/queen-beatle/heddiw-dim-byd-newydd Our Story of the Week is Kings Hall by tanisdt because I love a good ghost story. https://www.abctales.com/story/tanisdt/kings-hall Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a lovely weekend and great...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 21 Mar 2025

A very happy Spring Equinox to all ABCTalers for yesterday and thank you for the wonderful stories and poems you've posted here this week My choices for today: Poem of the Week goes to queen beatle for her stunning ekphrastic 'Wind from the Sea' https://www.abctales.com/story/queen-beatle/wind-sea Story of the Week is 'A Coming-Together' by Schubert who is on a bit of a roll at the moment https://www.abctales.com/story/schubert/coming-together...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 14 Mar 2025

Posted by airyfairy. I was all set to greet you with happy things about the coming of Spring, but then the weather changed its mind again (in my neck of the woods, anyway) and so...happy Spring, Second Winter, Early Summer, whatever is the current state of affairs where you are.

'Gift, a son's story' by Dan Seagrave - out now!

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Tue, 11 Mar 2025

I'm very pleased to announce the publication of 'Gift, a son's story' by Dan Seagrave. Dan writes as HarryC on ABCTales and is one of our most talented writers. You can order your copy here (free on Kindle Unlimited) https://tinyurl.com/4snv2e3n 'In 2016, Dan Seagrave and his family were faced with a decision that faces so many people with elderly relatives. His mother had to go into hospital with a serious illness. While she was in there, it...

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