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Two brilliant picks for you this week, both of which have stayed with me since I first read them. Congratulations to Jane Hyphen for 'The Call Centre' - a study in claustrophobia and futility with one small gleam of hope, and to Yvonne Anderson for 'It Was Our Home' - a finely crafted piece of life writing. If you enjoy them too, please let the authors know - it's always nice to get a comment! http://www.abctales.com/story/yvonne-anderson/it-was...

April's Story and Poem of the Month have been chosen for us by the lovely Philip Sidney aka Helen Richardson. Here are her picks: Thank you so much for the privilege of selecting the poem and the story of the month for April! Such a difficult thing to do, so I went for gut feelings. There were so many fantastic poems. Silver Spun’s warm as honey, ‘Where the Bee Sucks’, works on so many levels: http://www.abctales.com/story/silver-spun-sand/where...

So much good stuff to choose from this week - particularly prose - but I hope you like the two I finally settled on. Story of the week goes to The Baby In The Well by Jewel Serpent. A beautiful voice with a very necessary message. Our Poem of the Week is Silver Spun Sand's Where The Bee Sucks. It's Earth Day today, and what better way to celebrate than with this stunning hymn to nature. http://www.abctales.com/story/jewel-serpent/baby-well-0...

For everyone who's been following this, please read my update: http://www.abctales.com/story/insertponceyfrenchnamehere/bees-journey

Just to let you all know there's a shiny new category just for you! Please make sure your work is labelled with it from now on

Our Picks this month have been made by Hudsonmoon and here they are: Of all the fine writes this merry month of March, these two hit home for me. Philip Sidney’s poem Bombinations reflected my experience as a boy living in New York City in 1965. Only, my characters had names like President Lyndon Johnson and Sister Rebecca. It gave me a chill to relive it once again. Running off with Robot and Billy from Lost in Space had crossed my mind once or...

So much brilliant prose to choose from this week - however one had to be picked and I've gone for Noo's beautifully constructed suspense short 'Timestamp'. Poem of the week is Ewan's timely and excellent rant 'Boom!'. Congratulations to both. http://www.abctales.com/story/noo/timestamp http://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/boom The Inspiration Point, in honour of the clocks changing, is time flies. Good luck with that and I hope you all have a...

Poem of the week was a no-brainer and goes to Philip Sidney's wonderful evocation of childhood - Bombinations (fantastic word isn't it!) http://www.abctales.com/story/philip-sidney/bombinations The Story of the Week was harder and I would like to give rosaliekempthorne a very honourable mention for her interpretation of the Inspiration Point - The Buzzing in My Head : http://www.abctales.com/story/rosaliekempthorne/buzzing-my-head . She was...

February's Story and Poem of the Month have been picked by Ray Smart (Vera): February's Story and Poem of the Month have been picked by Ray Smart (Vera): It's a privilege to read all the wonderful work and get the opportunity to choose two pieces. A tricky job indeed. Here are February's Picks of the Month. Congratulations to David Martin with his beautifully composed story An Ending. Finely written prose with a transporting, ethereal feel to it...

A wonderful poem with great depths gets my pick of the week today. It's from Silver Spun Sand and I've no idea how she manages to keep on producing such high quality pieces day after day. An inspiration to us all. http://www.abctales.com/story/silver-spun-sand/painting-homeless-godly-0 Terrence Oblong's 'The Death of Andrew McGinty' is my Story of the Week. Slightly surreal and very funny as always, this has serious undertones as well. Please...