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Our Story and Poem of the Month for October, very kindly chosen by Ewan

 

 

It is always very difficult to make choices like this. Equally, what floats someone’s boat may well torpedo another’s. So, from a very subjective viewpoint, Pick of the Month will follow some (re)commendations below. 

 

Stories

Celtic...


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What an extraordinarily productive week it's been on ABCTales - encompassing Halloween and Guy Fawkes, with Inspiration Points to match, you have all been very busy - thank you for sharing the results with us!

My choices for Story and Poem of the Week are as follows:

With a very honourable mention to Makis for The Miracle of Fire, my c...


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He found himself at the loading docks that night.

The place looked empty—no security guards, no other skaters, just him and the concrete and the gap between platforms that he'd been sessioning for months. The October dark came early now, and the streetlights cast long shadows across the pavement. The air was cold, the kind of cold that got inside your...


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Filed by Fletcher Moody — Literary Correspondent

 

I was sent to a nightclub in Greenwich Village in the small hours of a Thursday in May of 1969 to cover the opening of a campaign for Mayor, and I have been failing to file the piece ever since.

The candidate was Norman Mailer. He had been given the Pulitzer Pr...


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Posted by onemorething:

Hello! It's been a while since I have had the pleasure of choosing the Picks of the Week.

Our Story of the Week is SoulFire77's wonderful Trevor and Barry Get Lucky. It's brilliant and is also dedicated to our lovely Jenny whose presence is much missed.


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