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Our Story and Poem of the Month for May has very kindly been chosen by Di_Hard: All the gifted writers who posted their wonderful work this month have made choosing only one Story and Poem very difficult, but a great time reading! I would like to recommend all of Mark Burrow's intensely moving Breakdowns, in May particularly : https://www.abctales.com/story/mark-burrow/breakdowns-7-part-i And a writer new to ABCTales, Aronovitz has started...

Chosen this week by Ewan . Hello all, another bank holiday week, but that hasn't stopped you gifted writers one bit. Naturally, that makes it all a bit difficult, and in the end whatever someone picks, it's all as subjective as subjective can be. Anyway, Poem of the Week is onemorething's 'Mother Dies' and very nice to see something from one of our best poets again. Honourable mentions go to Simon Barget's Elk and Marandina's Ranthambore , which...

Thank you so much for all the wonderful stories and poems you've posted this week. A very strong week for poetry, and almost impossible to decide, but in the end I've gone with Di_Hard's beautiful inklings. Extremely honourable mentions go to Rhiannonw for On the 6500+ km journey, twice and Angusfolklore's For The Birds Our Story of the Week is jxmartin's Magic in a marble Read them all and you won't regret it! https://www.abctales.com/story/...

I am very pleased to announce the publication of Revelation: love and death, a poetry collection by David Lott who writes on ABCTales as Animan: Varied and lucid, the poems in this series depict a history, a journey. They begin with a portrayal of innocence, marked by a desire to please others and by a limited ability to understand and evaluate experience. Then, in part 2, they present moments of essentials and permanents, to serve as a...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 19 May 2023 Thanks again to everyone for another week of most enjoyable reading. Our Poem of the Week is skinner_jennifer's beautiful 'Miracle of Spring On Gossamer Wings'. Spring/early summer has yet to get going where I live, so it was lovely to lose myself in this meditation on each year's renewal of life: Miracle Of Spring On Gossamer Wings | ABCtales Story of the Week is 'Lucifer - What's good for the saucy...

Smokescreen, by ABCTales' own Ewan Lawrie has just been published! Here's what he says: A while back, I put a chapter or so of the very old Smokescreen on ABCTales. It started out as a Nanowrimo attempt sometime before 2009 (I can't even remember which year, it was so long ago). Anyway, after Nano, I tidied it up a bit and printed it via Bubok.es, as I was living in Spain at the time. It was a first effort at self-pubbing, when it was only just...

Our Picks of the Month for April have been chosen by airyfairy: It’s been lovely to look back at all the brilliant work that was put on the site during April. ABCTales is, I think, unique in the variety of material that we have, and in the feeling of community on the site. It’s always exciting to see new writers and to catch up with the work of regular contributors. None of which makes doing the Picks of the Month any easier! The poets have been...

Posted by Ewan on Fri, 05 May 2023 Another week has gone by and it’s time to make the difficult choices again. Story of the Week The long form multi-part pieces continue to show up well. I was particularly impressed with Mark Burrows The Breakdowns.7 Part I ( & Part II ) . Celticman’s Goatie 8 alternated between making me laugh and shiver. Of the stand-alone pieces Mitchell Jamal Franco’s The Interconnectedness Of Things showed us a...

Posted by onemorething. This week’s Poem of the Week is lenchenelf’s This Green Isle. As fine a poem as you’re likely to read anywhere, anytime. https://www.abctales.com/story/lenchenelf/green-isle Our Story of the Week is the brilliant Hidden in the Mayonnaise by donignacio. You can read Part 1 here: https://www.abctales.com/story/donignacio/hidden-mayonnaise-part-1 Our Inspiration Point for the week can be found here: https://www.abctales.com/...

Posted by airyfairy. It's been said before, but I'll say it again - thank you so much to everyone who took part in the Reading Night last Saturday. It was wonderful to see so many of our writers, and to hear them read. And special thanks of course to Mark Burrow for the compering and to insertponceyfrenchnamehere and onemorething for the organising. Story of the Week is jeand's 'Bitty Barby Boob, RIP'. If you've been following Jean's story, you'...