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Posted by airyfairy. As always, many thanks to everyone for the wonderful contributions this week.

Posted by onemorething: So much wonderful writing this week. It's ALWAYS hard to choose Picks of the Week! Our Poem of the Week is celticman's brilliant and moving Memento Mori. https://www.abctales.com/story/celticman/memento-mori Our Story of the Week is one we've all been following avidly - Ewan's Don't You Step on my Blue-tacked Screws. Excellent writing. https://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/13-dont-you-step-my-blutacked-screws This week's...

Huge Thanks for all the amazing writing this week. The variety and quality is staggering, and I have enjoyed reading pieces again and again, while trying to make this very difficult decision! A late and most welcome arrival is another brilliant, thought provoking instalment of Jane Hyphen's Parcel For You, which I look forward to seeing in print and on screen in the future: https://www.abctales.com/story/jane-hyphen/parcel-youpart-27 Ewan has...

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Our Story and Poem of the Month for May, very kindly chosen by airyfairy: We've had an exceptional month here on ABC Tales. The poets seem to have been inspired by the coming of spring, and a number of our regulars are still producing magnificent ongoing works. So it's been hard to make choices. I've gone for the ones which have stayed with me ever since I first read them, and which I've been compelled to go back to. I greatly enjoyed mcmanaman'...

Well, it's the last day of May and it's 14 degrees here which doesn't seem at all fair really, but BBC weather assures me that tomorrow will be nicer, so in the meantime it's been very nice to go through all the wonderful prose and poetry you've posted this week. Thank you for each and every one. My choices for Story and Poem of the Week are as follows: Story of the week is a wonderful dip into 1970s England by Turlough, 'Bill or Bob?' and Poem...

Firstly some rather sombre news

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who came to our reading event last night. The rest of the world may be going down the plughole but ABCTales reading events are still fabulous. No-one had a dodgy connection or any microphone malfunctions which I think was a first! We heard some old favourites and some new unpublished work and every single piece was a gem. It was a brilliant evening! Thank you to our exceptionally talented readers...

Finally, sunshine. This week's Story of the Week is purplehaze's 'Sounds Like They're Saying Words' - it's wonderful and I heartily approve of all dawns and birdsong. https://www.abctales.com/story/purplehaze/sounds-theyre-saying-words This week's Poem of the Week is Ralph's poem, The Rower. Brilliant use of language and also the basis of our new Inspiration Point. https://www.abctales.com/story/ralph/rower-after-philip-larkin%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for April, very kindly chosen by Drew Gummerson An honour, as always, and a pleasure, to be the one doing the Picks of the Month. I’ll be brief. So here we go. Story. I like it when people place their continuing stories here on ABCTales and we are blessed this month to have two by two of our outstanding talents. Jane Hyphen’s Parcel for You continues to impress. https://www.abctales.com/story/jane-hyphen/parcel-...