The Abstract Art Gallery
A writing gallery created by writers from around the world. From poetry to song lyrics, from essays to entire novels and short stories.
Unlike teachers, school friends…
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…spring of 1941, we moved from Detroit to Colon, Michigan, the Magic Capital of the World. Surveyors used a dictionary and chose the first word they came upon to name the town: colon, a punctuation mark…
By Fay L. Loomis
Read More…ordered another round of drinks at the bar, Philip nodded to his reflection in the mirror. The date was going well, they were getting on well. It wasn’t a done deal yet. The next date…
By Chris Platt
Read More…some of everything.
My life is a Potpourri.
My “Hearing” is “Defunct.”
My “Sight” is…
By Dresden Fear
Read More…third grade, and for our English homework, Ms. Rivero instructed us to copy verbatim onto a piece of paper, via longhand, a poem from our textbook. Then, we would illustrate our visual interpretation of it on the white space surrounding the text. The following morning…
By Karlo Sevilla
Read More…comes to change thorns into flowers.
By following the Master Gardener’s directions
Spiritual flowers give their own…
By Jennifer Forrest
Read MoreFirst time I have shared…
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…as I watched the scene from a distance. The car laid on its side, my limp near lifeless body was a step stool for my friend to use as she climbed…
By Jennifer Forrest
Read MoreWhen life deals you a bad…
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…didn't deal John Allen a promising hand. He was born, black, dwarf, and hunchback. If any of that troubled him, I never heard him say so. His daily work was pasting type & art onto…
By K. L. Shipley
Read More…I’m still sitting under the young fig tree in the garden of our old house, holding the first volume of Ricarda Huch’s work on German Romanticists. It is as if I haven’t left that book at all, despite what I thought, that I abandoned its ideas many years ago. Thus, Schelling’s and Novalis’s romantic ideas…
By Fadi Abu-Deeb
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