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Posted by airyfairy on Sun, 28 Mar 2021 We've been advised by the server that this is now likely to take place later on in the day/early evening, but there's a chance it will go on until Tuesday. Again, many apologies for the inconvenience. Hopefully it will all go smoothly and we'll be back soon! airyfairy's blog 4 reads

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 Happy springtime, everybody! Let's hope the brighter days bring brighter times. Please don't forget that the site will be down for maintenance on 29 March. Our Story of the Week is 'Craven Gets Flashed', Episode XVI of hudsonmoon's brilliant and increasingly surreal Craven Danger series. Laugh out loud funny, you can enjoy this as a stand alone piece or do what any sensible person would do and read all the...

Posted by airyfairy on Mon, 22 Mar 2021 SITE MAINTENANCE 29 MARCH Just to let you know, our server will be carrying out maintenance on the site on 29 March. This is across all the sites they serve, so unfortunately we can’t give you the precise time it will start, or how long the site will be down for. Many apologies for the inconvenience. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 12 Mar 2021 Thank you again for all the lovely reads this week. Story of the Week is mitzi44's 'A Friend Indeed'. This series has been splendid from the beginning, and this evocation of childhood friendship, and the mishaps that can befall a big sister trying to be kind, are a joy to read: A Friend Indeed | ABCtales Poem of the Week goes to 'Don't Name Them' by Mentalelf. I found this quite extraordinary. It's spare,...

Our Story and Poem for the month of February have very kindly been chosen by airyfairy: Lots of lovely things on ABCTales this month – many thanks to everyone for providing such absorbing, touching, funny and just plain brilliant stuff. Firstly, a shout out to a few of the brilliant series that are on the site at the moment. I have picked out the latest episodes, but please do go back and read from the start - you won’t regret it. Mitzi44’s...

Dear All, I just wanted to say a big thank you to all of you for last night. It was a lot of fun and the quality of the readings was really something quite special. Here's the list of readers -- do check out their work on https://www.abctales.com/ Mark P (we will get you in for a full reading next time!) Luigi Pagano Sean McNulty Rhiannon Lem Ross Lowe LittleRedHat Frances (check out that podcast https://soundcloud.com/user-291481238/the-fran-...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 26 Feb 2021 Thank you for all the wonderful pieces on the site this week. There has been some stunning work, and it's been very hard to make the Picks of the Week. Poem of the Week goes to Di Hard's beautiful 'Getting Ready'. Beautiful, sensuous language, and a real feeling of strength and renewal. There are many layers to this poem, and it rewards any number of readings: Getting Ready | ABCtales Story of the Week is...

Difficult to choose, as always. Nice to see Terrence Oblong back and indeed Craven Danger’s misadventures and the disturbingly funny pieces from Simon Barget. Story of the Week is from a debutant writer Russ Lowe. “Take It Back”. It’s a bitterly funny time-machine piece, with sly nods to Back to the Future and a bitterly funny tone. Welcome to ABCTales. https://www.abctales.com/story/rosslowe/take-it-back Poem of the Week is always a difficult...

Our Story and Poem for the month of January, very kindly chosen by onemorething: As always, with such a wealth of diverse and fantastic writing shared here, it’s very hard to choose just one poem and story. Poem of the Month is Kilb50’s To A Lone Sailor. Such a beautiful poem. It left me lost for words and deeply moved. https://www.abctales.com/story/kilb50/lone-sailor Special mentions: Rosa Cruz’s Fair Maids of February is wonderful - you can...

First - we've decided to have another virtual reading event at the end of this month and we'd love to see you there! We've had two so far and they've been brilliant. Do register early, as Mark says, places fill up very quickly. You can read or just be there: ABCTales Virtual Reading Description ABCTales is holding a virtual reading night on Saturday 27th February (UKT), running from 19:00 to 21:00. Our members will be reading poems, short...