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, 29 Aug 2025

Thanks to everyone who's posted their stories and poems this week. As always, very hard to choose my favourites but here goes: Story of the Week is Lille Dante's breathtaking sweep of a story 'The Boy With The Telescope' Poem of the Week goes to Lenchenelf for her wonderful 'Lit' https://www.abctales.com/story/lille-dante/boy-telescope https://www.abctales.com/story/lenchenelf/lit Big congratulations to both! Here's the new Inspiration Point:...

The Whistle Blower.

Posted by The Story Man on Fri, 29 Aug 2025

The JP Brown Story.

Mandy Haggith (2025) The Lost Elms. A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees—and the fight to save them.

Posted by celticman on Thu, 28 Aug 2025

‘Stand under a tree and exchange breath with it’. Can you love a tree? Mandy Haggith likes to think so. My track record is mottled. My mates and me attacked trees with knives to practice stabbing. What kind of tree? I’ve no idea. A tree is a tree. We also tried cutting one down with a hand axe. The tree refused to die. We hardly made a dent in it. You don’t of course dent trees. The Scolytus scolytus beetle is a serial elm tree killer and far...

Gavin Francis (2021) Intensive Care. A GP, a Community & a Pandemic

Posted by celticman on Wed, 27 Aug 2025

Gavin Francis is an Edinburgh GP with around 4000 patients on his books. He also works as a locum on the Scottish Islands. Harris springs to mind. I’ve read (and reviewed) his first book, Island Dreams . (‘Islands can be a testing ground’ as can Covid-19)? He mirrors Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Years: ‘the best physic against the plague is to run away from it’. We’ve become overfamiliar with the term ‘essential worker’, face masks and...

How Do We Know Jesus is the Son of God?

Posted by mallisle on Mon, 25 Aug 2025

The author C S Lewis made a radio broadcast in the 1940s about people who said that they accepted Jesus as a great moral teacher but didn't accept his claim to be God. How could someone who mistakenly claimed to be God be a great moral teacher? The two don't go together. If Jesus believes he is God and he isn't, he is insane, like a man who thinks he is a poached egg. If Jesus knew he wasn't God and was lying, he would be the devil of Hell...

Jane Smith (2025) Community: People and Wildlife on the West Coast of Scotland.

Posted by celticman on Mon, 25 Aug 2025

‘No-one will protect what they don’t care about, and no-one will care about what they’ve never experienced.’ Attenborough’s quote had me thinking about how the rich—who’ve never experienced poverty—demonise the poor. Jane Smith is an artist, zoologist and poet. The combination gives her an authorial voice. Her artwork illustrates her journey. Harris, St Kilda, North Uist, Eigg, Loch Archaig, Argyll Hotspot, Knapdale, Islay, Dumfries, and even...

Gonubie 2008/9

Posted by Tom Brown on Tue, 19 Aug 2025

East London Tom Brown Uncle Nolan Indian Ocean

RUGBY!

Posted by Nolan on Sat, 16 Aug 2025

Springbucks Vs Wallabies! Go Bokke !! Mow 'em down you Zulu Warriors!

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