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For all Archibald and Josiah fans (and I know we have many on ABCTales), I'm very pleased to announce that Dead Reckoning by Philip Whiteland is available today in paperback and can be ordered with this link: https://mybook.to/DRPrint

Posted by onemorething: Another fine week of tales and poems. This week's Story of the Week is jolono's excellent Life Lessons Number 3 with Butch which was evocative and sad and layered. https://www.abctales.com/story/jolono/10-life-lessons-number-3 Thus week's Poem of the Week is Jessiibear's lovely Sea-Salt. https://www.abctales.com/story/jessiibear/sea-salt Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for April, very kindlty chosen by RJNewlyn Pick of the month April 2025 Well done to everyone who has posted this month and for keeping up the quality so ably. It has been a tough call … For prose, do take a look at Caldwell’s riff on The Raft of the Medusa ( https://www.abctales.com/story/caldwell/th%C3%A9odore-g%C3%A9ricaults-raft-medusa ), K-Burgin’s challenging ‘Killing Caprice’ ( https://www.abctales.com/...

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...