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Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point (and a new challenge!)

Posted by airyfairy. To start February off, and following on from Soulfire77's wonderful Frankenplot competition, GlosKat has also generously promised to make a donation to ABCTales if people take up her challenge to write an Alphabet story or poem. Details are here: Alphabet You Can’t | ABCtales and the deadline is 18 February. Thank you to GlosKat for such a lovely idea! Story of the Week is Part 1 of drew_gummerson's 'Minority Report'. As...

THANK YOU!

I'd like to say a very big thank you to everyone who's given money to ABCTales recently. All donations are very much appreciated and go towards the running of our site I'd also like to remind you that if you prefer to do a bank transfer rather than use JustGiving please email me ( claudine@abctales.com ) for our bank details

Story and Poem of the Month

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

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point posted by di_hard What a brilliant week for writing! Perhaps it is approaching Spring stirring everyone's talents to create. This has made wonderful reading, but choosing even harder than usual. Please read all these listed if you can, and many others, too Highly recommended : This part of HarryC's fabulous work in progress, which will be published one day, and get the recognition such great...

Please Win Us This Money!

Soulfire77 has posted a puzzle on his blog. He's written a 'frankenplot' mash up of the plots of three novels, all by world famous authors If someone can solve it by February 1st, he's promised to donate $25 to ABCTales If you could all put your thinking caps on it would be much appreciated, and a very big thank you to SoulFire! https://www.abctales.com/blog/soulfire77/frankenplot

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

This week’s picks have been chosen by marandina: Sadly, the wonderful onemorething is recovering from a broken ankle so is indisposed at the moment. So here am I guest appearing to choose this week’s picks. There were many pieces to consider including some absorbing works-in-progress. Do have a look at: ‘Bron’ by Ivan the OK-ish part 7 at https://www.abctales.com/story/ivan-ok-ish/bron-7 ‘An Expedition To The Pole’ by HarryC part 1 at https://...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

A big thank you to all our brilliant ABCTalers for your wonderful stories and poems this week

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by airyfairy. It's been more than a little chilly this week, so I've really enjoyed curling up with some of the wonderful writing on ABC. Our Story of the Week is the third episode of 'Bron', by Ivan the OK-ish. I've enjoyed all the chapters of this novel, and would say to anyone who hasn't read them yet - do yourself a favour and catch up now! This third episode is as funny and intriguing as the others: Bron-3 | ABCtales Poem of the Week...

Story and Poem of the Month

Our Story and Poem of the Month for December, very kindly chosen by Drew Gummerson

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point, posted by di_hard HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thank You so much to everyone who has posted stories and poems and comments this week, making ABCTales the fabulous place it is! Out of many wonderful stories, three stood out particularly : Terence Oblong's brilliant invention in https://www.abctales.com/story/terrence-oblong/baron-von-ernest-and-free... Jane Hyphen's genius for magic realism and character...

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