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Smokescreen, by Ewan Lawrie, out now!

Smokescreen, by ABCTales' own Ewan Lawrie has just been published! Here's what he says: A while back, I put a chapter or so of the very old Smokescreen on ABCTales. It started out as a Nanowrimo attempt sometime before 2009 (I can't even remember which year, it was so long ago). Anyway, after Nano, I tidied it up a bit and printed it via Bubok.es, as I was living in Spain at the time. It was a first effort at self-pubbing, when it was only just...

Story and Poem of the Month

Our Picks of the Month for April have been chosen by airyfairy: It’s been lovely to look back at all the brilliant work that was put on the site during April. ABCTales is, I think, unique in the variety of material that we have, and in the feeling of community on the site. It’s always exciting to see new writers and to catch up with the work of regular contributors. None of which makes doing the Picks of the Month any easier! The poets have been...

Story & Poem of the Week, & Inspiration Point 5th May 2023

Posted by Ewan on Fri, 05 May 2023 Another week has gone by and it’s time to make the difficult choices again. Story of the Week The long form multi-part pieces continue to show up well. I was particularly impressed with Mark Burrows The Breakdowns.7 Part I ( & Part II ) . Celticman’s Goatie 8 alternated between making me laugh and shiver. Of the stand-alone pieces Mitchell Jamal Franco’s The Interconnectedness Of Things showed us a...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by onemorething. This week’s Poem of the Week is lenchenelf’s This Green Isle. As fine a poem as you’re likely to read anywhere, anytime. https://www.abctales.com/story/lenchenelf/green-isle Our Story of the Week is the brilliant Hidden in the Mayonnaise by donignacio. You can read Part 1 here: https://www.abctales.com/story/donignacio/hidden-mayonnaise-part-1 Our Inspiration Point for the week can be found here: https://www.abctales.com/...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by airyfairy. It's been said before, but I'll say it again - thank you so much to everyone who took part in the Reading Night last Saturday. It was wonderful to see so many of our writers, and to hear them read. And special thanks of course to Mark Burrow for the compering and to insertponceyfrenchnamehere and onemorething for the organising. Story of the Week is jeand's 'Bitty Barby Boob, RIP'. If you've been following Jean's story, you'...

Story and Poem of the Month

Our Story and Poem for the month of March, very kindly chosen by onemorething The birds are starting to tell us that Spring is here and it’s my pleasure to choose the Picks of the Month for a blustery March. It feels like it hasn’t stopped raining where I am in England for the last few weeks so I’m looking forward to some warmth and brightness. Though reading all the wonderful writing on the site always brings its own light and comfort and ever...

'Feeding the Sea' by ABCTales writer Lem

Lem has been a long-time contributer to ABCTales. At our reading event she mentioned that 'Feeding the Sea' which she read so beautifully last night had been accepted by Seaside Gothic, so a big congratulations to her! You can buy your copy here: https://seasidegothic.com/shop/issues/issue-6/

READING EVENT - THANK YOU!

A very big thank you to all who came to our online reading event last night. I think it was our best yet with some truly spectacular performances. I'm very very grateful to Mark Burrow and onemorething for herding kittens organising the reading list, and to Mark for keeping everything running so smoothly on the night. As an added bonus Mark has recorded this one, due to popular demand, so if you couldn't make it we'll be posting a link once it's...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Happy Spring to all! Our Poem of the Week is JupiterMoon's 'the frog pond at equinox' - an incredible poem. You can read it here: https://www.abctales.com/story/jupitermoon/frog-pond-equinox Our Story of the Week is rosaliekempthorne's brilliant Ice Blue Eyes. You can read it here: https://www.abctales.com/story/rosaliekempthorne/ice-blue-eyes And if you haven't read these pieces already, you should. Fine writers and fine writing from Terrence...

AI/Change of Terms of Use - Please Read

This is to let you all know that our Terms of Use section has now been updated to reflect our decision not to alllow the use of AI on our site. https://www.abctales.com/legal If you have any further queries about this please email Claudine@abctales.com

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