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Poem and Story of the Week, and Inspiration Point, posted by di-hard

Thank you very much for the amazing poems and stories this week. Sometimes poems strike you with a strong emotional punch, sometimes they draw you back again and again with their layers of meaning. Such is Ralph's Black Vinyl; it is Poem of the Week: https://www.abctales.com/story/ralph/black-vinyl Story of the Week is this brilliant piece of flash fiction from Drew, part of his Tom Cruise series: https://www.abctales.com/story/drewgummerson/...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by onemorething: This week's Poem of the Week is Turlough's brilliant and powerful poem, Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table. https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/fifty-one-empty-places-dinner-table This week's Story of the Week is Ghigau 4 by w.w.j.abercrombie. https://www.abctales.com/story/wwjabercrombie/ghigau-4 Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a lovely weekend.

TJW

Jack has written to me to let me know that he's deleted his account. He's asked me to share with everyone his appreciation and thanks for everything, so I am!

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful pieces of writing you've posted this week, also for the support you give each other - there's nothing more valuable than letting someone know you've enjoyed something, or offering suggestions as to how they might improve My choices for this week are as follows: Story of the Week goes to RJF for their enchanting 'While the Lion Sleeps', and our Poem of the Week is Ralph's 'The Editor' which packs a punch...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by airyfairy. Hope everyone has had a good week, and enjoyed all the wonderful stuff on ABC Tales as much as I have.

Story and Poem of the Month

Our Story and Poem of the Month for May, very kindly chosen by Di_Hard: It is great to have so many superlative pieces of writing to read this month, but it makes choosing only one poem and story much harder, and I am so sorry I could not list everything I loved. Here are a few examples : As well as completing her (definitely should be published) Parcel For You, Jane Hyphen gave us this magical first day in a new job : https://www.abctales.com/...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

A very big thank you to everyone who's posted their stories and poems this week My choices for today are as follows: Poem of the Week is Turlough's wonderful Tan Remembered Toes with a very honourable mention to Caldwell's moving tribute What We Remember : https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/tan-remembered-toes-0 https://www.abctales.com/story/caldwell/what-we-remember My choice for Story of the Week is Mark Burrow's When a Swifty Turns into...

'Dead Reckoning' by Philip Whiteland. Out Today!

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

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

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...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Another fabulous week for ABCTales. A very big thank you to all our writers and poets for sharing their wonderful words with us. My choices for this week are as follows: Story of the Week goes to hudsonmoon for J.C Jones III - A Surprise Guest in the hope that he'll write another one soon. Poem of the Week is Jessibear's beautiful Tempranillo Haze. https://www.abctales.com/story/hudsonmoon/j-c-jones-iii-surprise-guest tempranillo-haze The new...

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