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Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point posted by di_hard What a brilliant week for writing! Perhaps it is approaching Spring stirring everyone's talents to create. This has made wonderful reading, but choosing even harder than usual. Please read all these listed if you can, and many others, too Highly recommended : This part of HarryC's fabulous work in progress, which will be published one day, and get the recognition such great...

Soulfire77 has posted a puzzle on his blog. He's written a 'frankenplot' mash up of the plots of three novels, all by world famous authors If someone can solve it by February 1st, he's promised to donate $25 to ABCTales If you could all put your thinking caps on it would be much appreciated, and a very big thank you to SoulFire! https://www.abctales.com/blog/soulfire77/frankenplot

This week’s picks have been chosen by marandina: Sadly, the wonderful onemorething is recovering from a broken ankle so is indisposed at the moment. So here am I guest appearing to choose this week’s picks. There were many pieces to consider including some absorbing works-in-progress. Do have a look at: ‘Bron’ by Ivan the OK-ish part 7 at https://www.abctales.com/story/ivan-ok-ish/bron-7 ‘An Expedition To The Pole’ by HarryC part 1 at https://...

A big thank you to all our brilliant ABCTalers for your wonderful stories and poems this week

Posted by airyfairy. It's been more than a little chilly this week, so I've really enjoyed curling up with some of the wonderful writing on ABC. Our Story of the Week is the third episode of 'Bron', by Ivan the OK-ish. I've enjoyed all the chapters of this novel, and would say to anyone who hasn't read them yet - do yourself a favour and catch up now! This third episode is as funny and intriguing as the others: Bron-3 | ABCtales Poem of the Week...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for December, very kindly chosen by Drew Gummerson

Story and Poem of the Week, with Inspiration Point, posted by di_hard HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thank You so much to everyone who has posted stories and poems and comments this week, making ABCTales the fabulous place it is! Out of many wonderful stories, three stood out particularly : Terence Oblong's brilliant invention in https://www.abctales.com/story/terrence-oblong/baron-von-ernest-and-free... Jane Hyphen's genius for magic realism and character...

Fashionably late this week, and with grateful thanks for all the wonderful pieces you've posted here are my choices for Story and Poem of the Week: Story of the Week goes to Sean McNulty for Plenilune which is a piece of magical brilliance: https://www.abctales.com/story/sean-mcnulty/plenilune Poem of the Week goes to Rhiannnonw for her beautiful and lyrical reminder of the circle of time, Circling: https://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/...

These are the final Picks of the Week before Christmas so I've put some lights up to make things a bit festive! I'd also like to wish you a happy Christmas and to say a very big thank you to all ABCTalers, especially the lovely editors for giving up their time to help make ABCTales what it is. We have had such a wonderful selection of prose this week it's been exceptionally hard to choose one in particular. I have two honourable mentions:...

Posted by onemorething: This week's Story of the Week is beanzie's My Dinosaur Era - pick any chapter. It's great writing and am really enjoying reading along. https://www.abctales.com/story/beanzie/my-dinosaur-era-chapter-44 This week's Poem of the Week is VeraClark's brilliant Variable. https://www.abctales.com/story/veraclark/variable This week's Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Wishing you all winter...