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A very big welcome to the new month and I hope everyone's lawns are turning green once again.

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Contemplation of Roses I am very pleased to have been asked to write a review of long-time ABCTales member, Annest Gwilym’s latest poetry collection. Part I : is an almanac, with each poem representing a month of the year, running from April to March. Naturally, the first poem in this part is Spring: a vivid and colourful poem, split into two quatrains showing us what Spring isn’t, followed by an eight-line stanza of blank verse telling us what...

Chosen by marandina: It’s been so good to see rain again this week! As ever, it’s been a privilege reading all the stories and poems posted. Thank you to everyone who contributed. Some fabulous works-in-progress at the moment well worth your time. Ewan’s intriguing ‘Money for the Circus’ with chapter 14 at https://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/money-circus-14 Ivan the Okay-ish’s equally intriguing ‘The Bungalow’ with chapter 6 at https://www...

Posted by airyfairy. These heatwaves have gone beyond a joke - or a meme - now, so I'm really hoping everyone out there is staying safe wherever you are. Our Story of the Week is Ewan's 'Money for the Circus' (part 12)'. It's lovely when a writer picks up a work in progress that has stalled for a while, and comes back stronger than ever. Although this episode is strong enough to be a standalone, do yourself a favour and go back to read the...

I'm delighted to announce that Excavatum: A Northern Folk Story, 1953 by our very own Sean McNulty is available to order on Amazon now. It was originally posted on ABCTales so I've already enjoyed it and can 100% recommend! Disembodied. So many living things.' Three exiled clergymen set off for Greenland aboard the trawler Dolores Costello with a wayward sea captain at the helm. When they are tasked with fulfilling a mother’s last wish, the...

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point posted by di_hard Thank You so much to everyone who has posted this week, giving ABCTales such a wonderful variety of quality writing! Here is a tiny selection : Eric Marsh continues to share a chapter a day, of both his latest fabulous Witch of the Dark Forest, and Amandarella stories. This week Amandarella has ventured North and found an archeological challenge. The characters encountered make...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for July, very kindly chosen by Mark Say:

Firstly I'd like to say a huge thank you, both to Cerasus Poetry for the idea and the very generous donation offered, and to everyone who's joined in with his fiction challenge, The Way We Heard, which comes to an end today. We've had a massive surge of last minute entries - no mean feat when the minimum word limit was 1000. I hope you've all had as much enjoyment from the writing as I've had from reading them. I'll be waiting with bated breath...

I'm very pleased to announce that J. Oliver Padgett who writes on ABCTales as SoulFire77 has a new book coming out.