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Two very differently styled pieces for our Picks this week. What they share is passion, conviction and, of course, brilliant writing.

Chosen this week by Ewan: As always, so many good things to read and such varied styles and forms. I’ve made the usual hard choices and narrowed all the tremendous stuff down to these two. Poem of the Week is Di_Hard’s to pick up time. I loved its sinusoidal curve on the screen, conjuring the shape of waves bringing the quartz to the seashore. https://www.abctales.com/story/dihard/pick-time Story of the Week is Mark Burrow’s Dayroom Conversation...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for March have very kindly been chosen by Drew Gummerson: Picks of the Month March I joined AbcTales back in 2003. I posted my first story thinking it would disappear into the black hole of the internet but then, to my amazement, I started to get email notifications, praise, comments. It encouraged me to write more. Get better. Entertain. And I made friends. Read lots of wonderful writing. So, 18 years later, it...

Pages and pages of wonderful, vibrant and imaginative writing this week - thank you so much, all of you, for keeping us entertained and for the wonderful supportive and encouraging comments you've left for each other My picks for this week: Poem of the Week goes to Daisy, Sitting on a Grave by mark-yelland-brown and Story of the Week to Mark Burrow for Christopher L Johnson's Heroic Act. Put them both on your 'must read' list and you will have a...

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Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 Happy springtime, everybody! Let's hope the brighter days bring brighter times. Please don't forget that the site will be down for maintenance on 29 March. Our Story of the Week is 'Craven Gets Flashed', Episode XVI of hudsonmoon's brilliant and increasingly surreal Craven Danger series. Laugh out loud funny, you can enjoy this as a stand alone piece or do what any sensible person would do and read all the...

Posted by airyfairy on Mon, 22 Mar 2021 SITE MAINTENANCE 29 MARCH Just to let you know, our server will be carrying out maintenance on the site on 29 March. This is across all the sites they serve, so unfortunately we can’t give you the precise time it will start, or how long the site will be down for. Many apologies for the inconvenience. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!