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Many thanks to Jane(airyfairy) who chose our picks for August: Amidst all the wonderful pieces on the site this month, two particularly stood out for me both for the quality of the writing and the (very different) emotions that stayed with me long after I’d read them. My poetry choice is VeraClark’s Magic, which manages to convey the love, fear, wonder and frequent banality of parenthood in its beautifully crafted lines. http://www.abctales.com/...

Two wonderful pieces for you. Our Story of the Week is Stephen Thom's brilliantly disturbing 'Sticks' and our Poem of the Week is Overthetop1's powerful 'The Return' posted by seashore. I thoroughly recommend both! http://www.abctales.com/story/stephen-thom/sticks http://www.abctales.com/story/seashore/return I hope the Inspiration Point sparks your creativity into action: http://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip .. and now I'm off to try to...

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Congratulations to the brilliant winning entries! http://www.abctales.com/blog/jolono/london-competition-winners

This week's winners just have to be our two Competition winners. Both are exceptional pieces and fully deserve a week on the home page! http://www.abctales.com/story/simonf/saturday-night-soldier-london http://www.abctales.com/story/torscot/district-line-london-competition The Inspiration Point is based on your local celebration, whatever it may be: http://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Good luck to everyone and have a great week!

Huge thanks this month to Coral (seashore) who very kindly took the time to select July's Poem and Story of the Month. Congratulations to the worthy winners! Whilst reading through so many wonderful pieces for this month's picks, I had a strong sense that my late daughter Julia (Overthetop1 on Abc) was with me, and maybe influencing my final choices. I’d like to think this was the case, so my shortlist consisted of pieces that I could relate to...

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Two great pieces this week. Poem of the Week goes to Philip Sidney for the pitch-perfect Daguerreotype, and Story of the Week to proudwing for Witnesses - his first piece (of many I hope!) on the site. Congratulations to both: http://www.abctales.com/story/philip-sidney/daguerreotype http://www.abctales.com/story/proudwing/witnesses Good luck with this week's Inspiration Point: http://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip .. and finally don't...

A short but intense story for you this week by London Calling: http://www.abctales.com/story/londoncalling79/dogs And the poem by scorio 88 just hits the spot for anyone who's ever worked in an office: http://www.abctales.com/story/scorpio88/rumour I hope you also enjoy this week's Inspiration point: http://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip

Our picks for the month of June have been chosen by the lovely Alex (london_calling79) I would like to dedicate this 'Pick of the Month' to the memory of our dear bee. Like a lot of us on the site, I always loved it when a comment of hers popped up on my work and was always pleased to read her wonderful words. I hope she would have approved of my picks as I had her in mind whilst choosing. For Poem of the Month it was a close one but I've gone...