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Our Story and Poem of the Month for May, very kindly chosen by Di_Hard: It is great to have so many superlative pieces of writing to read this month, but it makes choosing only one poem and story much harder, and I am so sorry I could not list everything I loved. Here are a few examples : As well as completing her (definitely should be published) Parcel For You, Jane Hyphen gave us this magical first day in a new job : https://www.abctales.com/...

A very big thank you to everyone who's posted their stories and poems this week My choices for today are as follows: Poem of the Week is Turlough's wonderful Tan Remembered Toes with a very honourable mention to Caldwell's moving tribute What We Remember : https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/tan-remembered-toes-0 https://www.abctales.com/story/caldwell/what-we-remember My choice for Story of the Week is Mark Burrow's When a Swifty Turns into...

For all Archibald and Josiah fans (and I know we have many on ABCTales), I'm very pleased to announce that Dead Reckoning by Philip Whiteland is available today in paperback and can be ordered with this link: https://mybook.to/DRPrint

Posted by onemorething: Another fine week of tales and poems. This week's Story of the Week is jolono's excellent Life Lessons Number 3 with Butch which was evocative and sad and layered. https://www.abctales.com/story/jolono/10-life-lessons-number-3 Thus week's Poem of the Week is Jessiibear's lovely Sea-Salt. https://www.abctales.com/story/jessiibear/sea-salt Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have...

Another fabulous week for ABCTales. A very big thank you to all our writers and poets for sharing their wonderful words with us. My choices for this week are as follows: Story of the Week goes to hudsonmoon for J.C Jones III - A Surprise Guest in the hope that he'll write another one soon. Poem of the Week is Jessibear's beautiful Tempranillo Haze. https://www.abctales.com/story/hudsonmoon/j-c-jones-iii-surprise-guest tempranillo-haze The new...

Posted by airyfairy. Another great week of reading on ABC Tales, and another set of near impossible choices for Picks of the Week!

Our Story and Poem of the Month for April, very kindlty chosen by RJNewlyn Pick of the month April 2025 Well done to everyone who has posted this month and for keeping up the quality so ably. It has been a tough call … For prose, do take a look at Caldwell’s riff on The Raft of the Medusa ( https://www.abctales.com/story/caldwell/th%C3%A9odore-g%C3%A9ricaults-raft-medusa ), K-Burgin’s challenging ‘Killing Caprice’ ( https://www.abctales.com/...

Posted by onemorething: Another wonderful week of writing on ABCtales. Our Poem of the Week is a very beautiful poem by Yutka, I am the stillness. https://www.abctales.com/story/yutka/i-am-stillness Our Story of the Week is hudsonmoon's very clever and funny, J.C Jones II The Podcast. https://www.abctales.com/story/hudsonmoon/j-c-jones-ii-podcast Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a good weekend...

Firstly I'd like to wish a warm welcome to our new members (we've had a small flurry) and to thank you for joining us. I hope you enjoy your time here. What a week it's been for ABCTales! We've had so many wonderful poems and stories posted - thank you so much for all of them and for the time you've all taken to leave comments for others' work. It makes such a difference to our writers and poets to know their contributions are appreciated. It's...

Posted by airyfairy. Our Story of the Week is Tipp Hex's brilliant 'The Missing'. A splendid piece of really taut noir, with a hint of something darker still, it gripped me from the first word to the last, and left a very distinct chill up my spine: The Missing | ABCtales Poem of the Week is Schubert's dark, wry and funny 'Six Thirty-Two'. A truly inspired response to last week's Inspiration Point! Six Thirty-Two | ABCtales This week's...