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Our picks for the month of February, very kindly chosen for us by marandina: It is an honour to be asked to choose the monthly picks for February at ABCTales.com. With so much high quality work, my plan was to list all stories and poems posted in February - welcome to the People’s Republic of marandina. But then I realised that would make this blog entry a bit long. So instead, I surfed the waters of the weekly and daily picks. If this process...

Such fabulous writing on the site this week and, as always, it's hard to choose Picks of the Week. And so difficult to choose a poem of the week with such powerful pieces from littleditty, poetkateholden, Ewan and lenchenelf. However, it must be lenchenelf’s wonderful poem that takes Poem of the Week this week. https://www.abctales.com/story/lenchenelf/firepower As for Story of the Week - some great writing from hudsonmoon, ice rivers and the...

We're in the middle of Storm Eunice here, with a red weather warning, and I'm sitting under a glass roof as I write this - possibly over-optimistic, but ok so far! I hope everyone else manages to stay safe, keeps their power on, and doesn't lose too many roof tiles. Anyway, reading through all the wonderful pieces you've posted has been a wonderful distraction - thank you so much for keeping ABCTales such a vibrant, supportive place My choices...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 11 Feb 2022 Two very haunting and unsettling pieces for you this week, which also have the advantage of being beautifully written. Poem of the Week is onemorething's 'The Tale of the Six Swans'. It captures the dark magic and timelessnes of the original story, giving it a new focus for our own times. It really is like reading a fairytale anew: The Tale of the Six Swans | ABCtales Story of the Week goes to Simon Barget...

Our picks for the month of January, very kindly chosen by airyfairy: I’m writing this just after the latest ABC Tales Reading Event, which only proved, once again, how much talent there is on this site. Not only the writing – the readings were pretty amazing too! So of course it’s been really hard to make this month’s choices. I’ve enjoyed so many wonderful stories and poems, and in the end it came down to the ones that gripped me right from the...

Just a reminder that on Friday (7-9pm GMT) we are having another online reading event with a fab lineup! Readers include: Drew Gummerson, Sean McNulty, Ewan Lawrie, Jane (airyfairy), Paul (marandina), Jack O'Donnell (celticman), Little Red Hat, Rachel Deering (onemorething), Ross Lowe, Michael Lawrence (donignacio), JoAnne (Penny for a thought), and Mark Burrow. Do come along and listen, we'd love to see you there. Click here to register (...

Another week another difficult choice. It was fun to read more of Terrence Oblong's flights of fancy particularly Midnight Mass Murder and Hudson Moon was on form with a surreal avian-narrated piece A Pigeon's Delight . However, Story of the Week goes to Mark Burrow's Weightless v2 . Choosing a Poem of the Week is often harder than choosing a story, this week is no exception. I won't list all of the quality work here, as there really was so much...

Dear all, We are having another online reading event on Friday 4th of February from 7pm until 9pm. Please do come along and join in. It would be wonderful to have lots of readers, but it would be just as lovely to have people along as audience members too. If you do want to read, please send me an email at this address: rachel@abctales.com I will put together a list ready for Mark. Mark will, very kindly, be hosting again - you need to sign up...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 14 Jan 2022 ABC writers have really started the new year with a flourish. There has been some absolutely marvellous poetry, and the prose writers have been exercising their humour muscles to exceptional effect. After a lot of thought, Story of the Week goes to donignacio's 'The God of Mistakes'. It's funny, it's eminently relatable, and it explains a lot! The God of Mistakes | ABCtales Poem of the Week is '...

Our Final Story and Poem of the Month for 2021, very kindly chosen by Di_Hard: There have been so many fabulous pieces of writing this December, it was very difficult even narrowing the list down to 6 prose and 6 poems, and I have continually changed my mind about the final choices as they are all equally wonderful in different ways. Stories Christmas Boris is the latest instalment of Marandina's extremely funny satire on Boris Johnson, in the...