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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Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 12 Sep 2025

Story and Poem of the Week,and Inspiration Point posted by di_hard Once again, there has been such fabulous and varied writing this week! Thank you so much to all who have posted your work. So many pieces are staggeringly good. Here are a few highly recommended : https://www.abctales.com/story/caldwell/sandwiches-wittgenstein-and-log https://www.abctales.com/story/jane-hyphen/tiny-easter-teddy https://www.abctales.com/story/j-stapleton/patrolman...

James Yorkson (2025) Tommy the Bruce.

Posted by celticman on Wed, 10 Sep 2025

I read the biography before the book. James Yorkson is an acclaimed musician. Fuck—right—off, I thought. Another gobshite who in his spare time writes best-selling novels. I had to give it a couple of pages before I had to eat my words. Well, his words. A page turner. Tommy the Bruce is great, just my kind of book. There’s a theory called ‘muddling on’. In Scotland it’s called ‘jist getting on wae it’. Tommy hasn’t much of a life. But he does...

THE RINGS

Posted by Tom Brown on Wed, 10 Sep 2025

The Circle Of The Rings Granny & Grandpa Jack and Beryl Brown Oupa and Ouma (Grandparents and Mother) Selby Logan and Mother Ouma (Ionie) and Oupa (Jacques) de Vos “As unto the bow the the cord is, So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows: Useless each without the other.” – Longfellow

Gabrielle Griffiths (2025) Greater Sins

Posted by celticman on Tue, 09 Sep 2025

Gabrielle Griffiths’ debut novel Greater Sins is published by Penguin. So what? You might be thinking Well, let me tell you, that’s one of the big four or five publishers. It’s not newsworthy but it is a big deal in the rocky world of publishing. There’s no greater sin than jealousy. So I’ll shut up. Setting: Cabrach. I wasn’t sure if this was a real place. It is. Nearest town Huntly. Nearest big city Aberdeen. We’re in classic Lewis Grassic...

Circulaire by Bex Hainsworth : Review and Link to Buy

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Mon, 08 Sep 2025

I am delighted to announce that Bex Haindsworth (our very own Mistaken Magic)'s Circulaire is out now and available to order from the link below, along with a review by marandina;

Antony Beevor (1998) Stalingrad.

Posted by celticman on Sun, 07 Sep 2025

‘Time is blood.’ Stalingrad won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. Why does Antony Beevor’s account of a battle fought over 80 years ago still resonate? ‘The Great Patriotic War’ ideology derives from Stalingrad’s epic scale of the suffering and dead first appeared in Pravda . Around four million ‘German’ soldiers pushed into the Soviet Union. Around a quarter were Austrians, Romanians...

Story and Poem of the Month

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Sun, 07 Sep 2025

Our Story and Poem of the Month for August, very kindly chosen by hudsonmoon:

Jesus is the Messiah. What Does Messiah Mean?

Posted by mallisle on Sun, 07 Sep 2025

What does it mean for Jesus to be the Messiah? The Messiah is the way to God. Jesus said, "I am the Way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me." The one who came from Heaven to take us back to Heaven. Jesus said, "In my father's house are many rooms. I go to prepare a place for you. If I go to prepare a place for you I will come back to take you there." John 14:1-6. The Messiah is the mediator between God and man,...

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