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Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point (and a new challenge!)

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 06 Feb 2026

Posted by airyfairy. To start February off, and following on from Soulfire77's wonderful Frankenplot competition, GlosKat has also generously promised to make a donation to ABCTales if people take up her challenge to write an Alphabet story or poem. Details are here: Alphabet You Can’t | ABCtales and the deadline is 18 February. Thank you to GlosKat for such a lovely idea! Story of the Week is Part 1 of drew_gummerson's 'Minority Report'. As...

‘Can we enter heaven with one leg?’

Posted by celticman on Fri, 06 Feb 2026

‘Can we enter heaven with one leg?’ The little girl named Saja in Jabela, who lost her leg in an Israeli airstrike on her house before entering an eternal sleep due to the destruction of all hospital in Gaza had asked I think she entered with two.

Leonardo Da Vinci (2024), BBC iPlayer, Written by Sarah Burns and David McMahon, narrator Keith David, Director Ken Burns.

Posted by celticman on Thu, 05 Feb 2026

Leonardo Da Vinci (2024), BBC iPlayer, Written by Sarah Burns and David McMahon, narrator Keith David, Director Ken Burns. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00264cj/leonardo-da-vinci https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026ch9/leonardo-da-vinci-series-1-2-part-two-paintergod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_(2024_film) Ken Burns that heavyweight of public service films and whose documentary films have attempted to explain...

Panorama - Our Man in Moscow. Available on BBC iPlayer

Posted by marandina on Thu, 05 Feb 2026

Our Man in Moscow – Panorama. BBC iPlayer My son worked in Moscow a few years ago. He liked it there. He always said that Muscovites are more open than you would imagine and that the streets felt safe unlike cities such as London. He returned to the UK after the start of the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine which saw tanks roll in from February 2022. The company he worked for was London-based and had decided to withdraw all of its...

THANK YOU!

Posted by insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Thu, 05 Feb 2026

I'd like to say a very big thank you to everyone who's given money to ABCTales recently. All donations are very much appreciated and go towards the running of our site I'd also like to remind you that if you prefer to do a bank transfer rather than use JustGiving please email me ( claudine@abctales.com ) for our bank details

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS / COLLABORATORS

Posted by FRQNTZ on Thu, 05 Feb 2026

SIGNAL / INTERFERENCE: A Collaborative Chapbook Project

Alan Bennett (2005) Untold Stories.

Posted by celticman on Wed, 04 Feb 2026

I had to check Allan Bennett is still alive. He’s 91 now. Books don’t have to be new to be read. His diary entries and moral outrage with Tony Blair as he cosied up to George Bush (junior) over the invasion of Iraq over dumbed up files that never existed…well, with the moron’s moron Trump treating the Doomsday Clock as a pinball machine that spits out Nobel Peace Prizes we’re beyond satire, but not common sense. Bennett has got more than a wee...

Alphabet You Can’t

Posted by GlosKat on Tue, 03 Feb 2026

Alphabet You Can’t Inspired by Soulfire77’s Frankenplot competition (and beholden to him for the title above) I thought I would offer to donate £25 to ABC to see what anyone can come up with for ‘an Alphabet story’. This means a coherent story where every word starts with the next letter of the alphabet eg “A bear called David eats figs greedily ..“ type thing. It doesn’t have to be a story, it could be a poem or a non-fiction prose piece, any...

How Do We Get Right With God?

Posted by mallisle on Mon, 02 Feb 2026

We might try to get right with God by obeying his commands. This would prove difficult. No human being has ever gone through the whole of their lives without breaking any of God's commands. If you break only one of them, you have become a law breaker. If you don't commit murder but do commit adultery, you have broken God's laws. James 2:9,10. We think that God's laws are right in our minds but putting them into practice is another matter. We...

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