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Posted by airyfairy. Thank you, everyone for some amazing stuff this week! Story of the Week goes to SoulFire77's opening part of 'Lily'. It brilliantly manages the complex and difficult task of being ever so quietly very disturbing.. You'll be glad to know, once you've been completely drawn into the story and you're hooked, that there are more parts posted on the site, and the promise of more to come! Lily (A Prologue) | ABCtales Poem of the...

Thank you all so much for your wonderful contributions to our site this week. My choices are as follows: Poem of the Week is Jane Hyphen's brilliant 'The World is Closed' which is particularly apt for this time of the year: https://www.abctales.com/story/jane-hyphen/world-closed Story of the Week goes to Sean McNulty for today's part from his work in progress 'The Discharge'. It reads perfectly well as a stand alone and has one of the best and...

Posted by onemorething: This week's Poem of the Week is the timely, astute and excellent poem from Ewan, Land of Hope and Fury. https://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/land-hope-and-fury This week's Story of the Week is Caldwell's unsettling and brilliantly written tale, The Second Shadow. https://www.abctales.com/story/caldwell/second-shadow There was an abundance of great prose on the site this week too. From Turlough - will happily read anything...

I'm very pleased to announce that Katherine Black (our very own Sooz Simpson) has just published Xion Island Zero, the sixth in her Inspector Nash series. Here's a review by celticman and a link to buy: Xion Island Zero is the sixth in the Inspector Nash series. You don’t need to know much about Nash as each book is a standalone. Five serial killers down. One to go. What remains consistent is place—Barrow (where the author lives). Nash also has...

Poem and Story of the Week, with Inspiration Point posted by di_hard Thank You for all the great writing that's been contributed this week, which has brightened up the gathering gloom. Also for the comments, which are part of why ABCTales is the friendly, encouraging and inspirational place it is! A Huge Thank You to Tony Cook for donating £2000 towards the running of this site, so important to many people around the world. Poem of the Week is...

Our Story and Poem of the Month for October, very kindly chosen by Jane Hyphen: It's been a real struggle choosing this month. I don't know if it's just me but the volume and quality of writing has been incredible. Nevertheless I have chosen my favourites as follows: There has been an extraordinary volume of quality and class on ABC Tales, and also some spooky additions for Halloween. My favourite story of the month comes from VeraClark. A...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 31 Oct 2025 OOOH! Lots of lovely spooky stuff on the site this week! Hard choices for the Picks, but here they are. Story of the Week is rask_balavoine's 'Wobbling between this and that'. I loved this for its humour, its surreal atmosphere, and its genuine creepiness: Wobbling between this and that. | ABCtales Poem of the Week is Turlough's 'Early Lateness'. Very few people could successfully combine hard boiled eggs...

The Rialto Nature And Place Poetry Competition 2026 The RSPB and The Rialto are additionally working with BirdLife International, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative and the University of Leeds Poetry Centre. There’s a fantastic range of prizes on offer and prizewinners will be invited to read their poems at an event withMona Arshi at CCI in summer 2026. The closing date for entries is midnight on 1st April 2026. As well as offering poets the...

I'm very pleased to announce that Ewan Lawrie's third poetry collection is now available. Here's what he says: Third-time lucky? Maybe not. I have a new collection of poems. Available in all formats, [Shouldn't that be all three-mats?] from today. It's a nice looking book, the cover almost looks professional [It isn't, I did it]. The Paper Over The Cracks is here (link is external) . Anyway, have a look, looking costs nothing. If poetry's not...

A very big thank you to everyone who's contributed to ABCTales this week - you are what makes our site so special. In difficult times we need humour more than ever and my choice for Poem of the Week goes to Lou Blodgett for his brilliant 'I Believe in Frogs'. https://www.abctales.com/story/lou-blodgett/i-believe-frogs Our Story of the Week goes to Beanzie whose work in progress, now called My Dinosaur Era is going from strength to strength. Here...