Read
Musings of a Doppelgänger
“Changelings,” she would call them. Ghastly little things, they were fairies or trolls depending on her mood at the time, but the stories she told...
- Read more about Musings of a Doppelgänger
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1154 reads
Saltburn - A Publishing Journey
Saltburn. I started Saltburn here on ABCTales in the first week of 2020. In February 2025 it’s going to be published. This is the story. I’m usually...
- Read more about Saltburn - A Publishing Journey
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1742 reads
The Jester’s Requiem: Yorick Unmasked (IP)
"The Jester’s Requiem: Yorick Unmasked" By Imogen Ida Nadir, Vanity Unfair London, 6:45 p.m. Yorick may have once been the court jester of Elsinore,...
- Read more about The Jester’s Requiem: Yorick Unmasked (IP)
- 8 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3589 reads
Bus Pass [and BPL] Have Plenty of Fun
BPL was becoming increasingly animated about something called ‘A snow-bomb’. Bus Pass reckoned this is what comes from believing weather reports off...
- Read more about Bus Pass [and BPL] Have Plenty of Fun
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1437 reads
Good News Not Locked up
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Imprisoned, Paul was bound. God’s word they could not bind – it quickly spread, and soon was found, believed...
- Read more about Good News Not Locked up
- 6 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3026 reads
A Brief Account of My Life
I was born in an excellent hospital in Ashland, Oregon, really rather a model city even then to Eric Lawlor Nelson and Cecelia Rose Howard, that is...
- Read more about A Brief Account of My Life
- Log in to post comments
- 411 reads
Curriculum Vitae. Part Two.
l have got some Very confused cats and dogs this morning. The light had not long gone off this morning, late. For me all the hype was yesterday as I...
- Read more about Curriculum Vitae. Part Two.
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1690 reads
I Feel it in My Fingers
It’s thirty years since ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ was released. Bit depressing. Went to a retrospective at the ARC in Peterhead. Even though the...
- Read more about I Feel it in My Fingers
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1291 reads
The Last Night Chapter Four
Chapter 4 Soft Reality 11 Ariel heaved against Wyatt’s chest, not unlike a drowning victim clawing their way back to the surface, desperate for just...
- Read more about The Last Night Chapter Four
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1196 reads
Mariska
Knowing she is my favourite actress of all time, when my husband found out infomation about her, this week, he told me about it. Paul found out who...
- Read more about Mariska
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1584 reads
A.I.
With tech spiraling out of control, it is difficult for everyone to be safe. Before, shredding our important details was a must, now that makes no...
- Read more about A.I.
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1387 reads
Reunited (Dead Reckoning series - Part 35)
In which Samantha struggles to understand Mr. Strine, Josiah and Archibald find themselves back in the saddle and D.S. Stone prays for a breakthrough, or just for something to happen, which is odd because...
- Read more about Reunited (Dead Reckoning series - Part 35)
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1307 reads
Curriculum Vitae
Mike Tyson will be fighting in a few hours. Mike is 58 years old and the young man he will be against is 27 years old. There is a lot of debate of...
- Read more about Curriculum Vitae
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1802 reads
Parcel for You..Part 41
Vanessa felt quite relieved, driving away from the hotel with a strong sense of never wanting to return. Despite that, she was pleased with herself...
- Read more about Parcel for You..Part 41
- 9 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3757 reads
1:5:6 Agreements (Part 4)
It wasn’t what they had expected; while Quatarr and most museums seemed to favour wide, open spaces, Tarr’Zendwr was relatively cramped. It consisted...
- Read more about 1:5:6 Agreements (Part 4)
- Log in to post comments
- 499 reads
Chapters and Chores
After too many hours on the bus on Monday, Tuesday was a chapters and chores day. Read a few chapters, do a few chores. Repeat. And focus on...
- Read more about Chapters and Chores
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2115 reads
The Extraordinary Child
The Extraordinary Child By Paul McCann The long night slowly passed to the silence of the morning light, and he lay there in bed looking up at the...
- Read more about The Extraordinary Child
- Log in to post comments
- 825 reads
Drunk
Have you ever been drunk, and submersed in a funk, as if trapped in a trunk but then asked to write junk in a poem which stunk though your mind has...
- Read more about Drunk
- Log in to post comments
- 502 reads
A school
A school building is on its own its busy during the week kids running down it corridors, being cheeky as kids can be the men who built this school...
- Read more about A school
- Log in to post comments
- 531 reads
Bus Pass [and BPL] are Together Again
Bus Pass often thought of themselves as ‘Patsy’ to BPL’s ‘Edina’; constantly by her side, encouraging prodigal ways. Bus Pass sometimes prayed to...
- Read more about Bus Pass [and BPL] are Together Again
- 5 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1600 reads