ABCtales Critiquing Service - good reports!

Posted by tcook on Mon, 26 Mar 2012

Over the years many of you have asked for a critiquing service and it has taken a long time to find (a) someone good enough to do it well and (b) someone who will charge what we regard as a reasonable fee. Finally, we've done it! Lorraine Mace is a freelance writer, columnist and tutor for the Writers Bureau. Winner of the Petra Kenney International Poetry Competition (comic verse category), Lorraine's fiction, features and humour have appeared...

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Douglas Jackson (2024) Blood Roses.

Posted by celticman on Thu, 12 Jun 2025

Blood Roses is the first in a quartet of books which feature Jan Kalisz. He’s a detective investigating a serial killer. So far so mundane. You know the type. Psychopathic killers. They have their own reason for killing, which relies on a tautology. Their reason for killing is because they’re psychopathic killers. What makes it different isn’t Douglas Jackson’s undoubted talent, but the timeline. It’s 1939 and the Germans have just invaded...

Dr Matt Morgan (2023) One Medicine: How Understanding Animals Can Save Your Life.

Posted by celticman on Wed, 11 Jun 2025

Start with the bad news. Flipper is dead. He drowned himself (or herself) in a small pool of water. He couldn’t take the isolation. Humans aren’t good at isolating either. We call it loneliness. You remember Flipper ? Saturday morning telly. It was a bit like Poirot but without the moustache or French accent. Flipper whistled to say ‘there’s the body over there.’ Or he’d rescue somebody. That seems improbable. But Kevin was relatively lucky. He...

Story and Poem of the Month

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Sun, 08 Jun 2025

Our Story and Poem of the Month for May, very kindly chosen by Di_Hard: It is great to have so many superlative pieces of writing to read this month, but it makes choosing only one poem and story much harder, and I am so sorry I could not list everything I loved. Here are a few examples : As well as completing her (definitely should be published) Parcel For You, Jane Hyphen gave us this magical first day in a new job : https://www.abctales.com/...

Sarge Joe

Posted by Tom Brown on Sat, 07 Jun 2025

Joe Brown Rarer than radium, Commoner than water, crueller than truth -Dylan Thomas Two proud, blacked brothers cry, Winter-locked side by side, Ride through the doors of our unentered house. Exiled in us we arouse the soft, Unclenched, armless, silk and rough love that breaks all rocks.

Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 06 Jun 2025

Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point, chosen by di-hard Thank you all so much for the wide range of brilliant writing this week, so making ABCTales the amazing place that it is! Story of the Week is this wise and very, very funny continuation of J.C Jones's visit to America : https://www.abctales.com/story/hudsonmoon/j-c-jones-v-let-us-eat Highly recommended are two more stories in progress : Mark Burrow's wonderful and terrible...

My Next Adventure

Posted by Dark Fox on Thu, 05 Jun 2025

Hi everyone. I am so sorry that I have not written anything new in the last couple of months. My creativity is a little on the low side and for that I am sorry. On the plus side, there may be something written later this week or early next week. I am currently raising money for a 10k walk that I am doing on the 7th at midnight. I may write something about it after I have done it. I know it will be a lot of fun but its going to be hard. I am...

Two little boys

Posted by Tom Brown on Wed, 04 Jun 2025

Boeties Mother & Sons Dad's Christmas! East-London Sunset

Denver Riggleman with Hunter Walker (2022) The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation in January 6th.

Posted by celticman on Mon, 02 Jun 2025

Denver Riggleman and Hunter Walker take is as a given that their reading public know what Breach they’re referring to and what January 6th they refer. Like 9/11 it will be imprinted on our minds. But it isn’t. We’ve already moved on. ‘Stop the Steal’ didn’t work. Nobody much refers to it now. It’s no longer a shibboleth. Not even among Trump supporters. Enough Americans voted for a dim-witted, rapist, thieving, draft-dodging, neo-Nazi,...

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