Anna & Tom Bulldog Pretoria Sussex 410 ~ Friendly! Sussex 410 ~ The Apple and the Tree ~ Last one in! Mafeking ~ Pietersburg Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9TVvkpHWxg

Just say "no", has a whole new global space to be used in now... especially for parents who want support in protecting their children: https://www.sfc-sa.co.za/

For those who are aware... those who are paying attention... those watching the human space... things are moving fast, are you happy with where they are going? https://www.richardasher.com/analogue

Our Story and Poem of the Month for October, very kindly chosen by Jane Hyphen: It's been a real struggle choosing this month. I don't know if it's just me but the volume and quality of writing has been incredible. Nevertheless I have chosen my favourites as follows: There has been an extraordinary volume of quality and class on ABC Tales, and also some spooky additions for Halloween. My favourite story of the month comes from VeraClark. A...

My current best Writers on AbcTales October 2025 5. valiswaverider – Rob Wheeldon 4. rhiannonw – Rhiannon 3. swindonwoody – Maggie 2. Caldwell – Christopher 1. Maxine Jasmin-Green Please be reminded that use of Artificial Intelligence is not allowed on AbcTales.

Darren McGarvey (2022) The Social Distance Between Us. How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain. I met Darren McGarvey a few years ago in Dalmuir Library. I’d passed him on the way in. He was having a fag outside. The library still exists, but in shortened form as part of the C.E.Centre as part of local-authority cutbacks. I bought the book he was selling, Poverty Safari . Out of sight, out of mind. I can’t remember much about it, even though it won...

OOOH! Lots of lovely spooky stuff on the site this week! Hard choices for the Picks, but here they are. Story of the Week is rask_balavoine's 'Wobbling between this and that'. I loved this for its humour, its surreal atmosphere, and its genuine creepiness: Wobbling between this and that. | ABCtales Poem of the Week is Turlough's 'Early Lateness'. Very few people could successfully combine hard boiled eggs with the creeping onset of darkness, but...

I'm very pleased to announce that Ewan Lawrie's third poetry collection is now available. Here's what he says: Third-time lucky? Maybe not. I have a new collection of poems. Available in all formats, [Shouldn't that be all three-mats?] from today. It's a nice looking book, the cover almost looks professional [It isn't, I did it]. The Paper Over The Cracks is here (link is external) . Anyway, have a look, looking costs nothing. If poetry's not...

Third-time lucky? Maybe not. I have a new collection of poems. Available in all formats, [Shouldn't that be all three-mats?] from today. It's a nice looking book, the cover almost looks professional [It isn't, I did it]. The Paper Over The Cracks is here . Anyway, have a look, looking costs nothing. If poetry's not your thing, I have other books . Some of them are even quite good.

Watching football. First games ending, second games starting. Get a phone call in between from a female who's askin me a shit ton of questions. Listen, females. When you ask a man a question he is not thinking about the best answer, he ain't even thinking about an answer to the question. He's thinking about what to say to shut this shit down. And when you're with him and you're taking off your clothes and you're thinking Does he think my breasts...