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Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 05 Jun 2026

A very warm welcome to our new members, and to those who've returned after a while - it's always nice to see familiar names.

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 29 May 2026

Posted by airyfairy. Whether you've been enjoying or surviving the heatwave, I hope everyone's had a good week! Story of the Week is 'Doing It', a dryly funny tale from Ivan the OK-ish. As well as this author's always enthralling scene-setting and dialogue, there's a great twist at the end. There is more than one way to turn your life around: Doing it | ABCtales Poem of the Week is 'Yes Day', Mr Moon's beautiful tale of a parent and child's...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 22 May 2026

This week’s picks have been chosen by marandina: Here I am standing in again for onemorething who is indisposed but will be back with you very soon. Some impressive works-in-progress gracing the site at the moment. Do have a look at: Ivan the OK-ish continues his impressive novel-in-waiting ‘Bron’ with https://www.abctales.com/story/ivan-ok-ish/bron-41 Eric Marsh is posting more of his wonderful Amandarella and Glenda the Wendle stories. Try:...

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 15 May 2026

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point posted by di_hard It is often difficult to choose Best Story, but this week, it is almost impossible. Ralph's inner conversation is like seeing a raw wound, unflinchingly honest, in writing so beautiful, there is a powerful dignity : https://www.abctales.com/story/ralph/memoir-disco-dancer-prologue-bluebe... If you haven't yet read Eric Marsh's adventures of Amandarella, please do! While he has...

'For All We Know We Don't' by Sean McNulty. Out Now! Review by Drew Gummerson

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Tue, 12 May 2026

I am very pleased to announce the publication of 'For All We Know We Don't' - a collection of short stories by our very own Sean McNulty. It's available to order from Amazon here: https://tinyurl.com/msw6b5js FOR ALL WE KNOW WE DON'T is a darkly comic picture of adolescence in Ireland's boisterous and poetic northeast. A coming-of-age story cycle from the glory days of VHS, Samantha Fox, and escaped paramilitaries. Ireland in the late 1980s. It'...

Story and Poem of the Month

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Sun, 10 May 2026

Our Story and Poem of the Month for April, very kindly chosen by Airyfairy

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 08 May 2026

Posted by airyfairy. First of all, a reminder of our brilliant new writing challenge, courtesy of Cerasus Poetry. It promises to be a lot of fun: “The Way We Heard”: A New Fiction Challenge for ABCtales | ABCtales Story of the Week goes - after a lot of thought, because everyone seems to be on a roll at the moment - to the latest chapter of Eric Marsh's Amanderella Gottsnobbler series. It's fun, it's brilliantly written, it's a children's story...

“The Way We Heard”: A New Fiction Challenge for ABCtales

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Wed, 06 May 2026

“The Way We Heard”: A New Fiction Challenge for ABCtales This new fiction challenge is sponsored by Cerasus who will donate £100 to ABCtales if all the criteria are met. It is inspired by Lille Dante’s current project to write a series of vignettes based around every UK Number 1 Single starting from the Chart’s inauguration in November 1952. Number 1 | ABCtales Lists of UK singles chart number ones - Wikipedia Lille is not confident of...

The ABCtales Superpoem Challenge – The Final Outcome

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Tue, 05 May 2026

Huge thanks to Turlough for his brilliant idea, his very generous donation to ABCTales, and to all ABCTalers who joined in. I hope you'll agree that the result was most definitely worth it! The ABCtales Superpoem Challenge – The Final Outcome It delights me to be able to announce that our Superpoem is complete. Many, many thanks to everybody who entered a few lines, and to everyone who took the time to read about it even if they didn’t put pen...

Family Man by Colin Burnett. Review!

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Sat, 02 May 2026

I'm very pleased to annnounce the publication of Colin Burnett's new book 'Family Man' ' 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 boss isn’t what it used to be. Not only does Aldo need to balance his duties running his crew of killers and psychotic hitmen, but he also needs to hope and...

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