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.
Who knows what stalks the night.
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Sometime around two o’clock I woke up thirsty. I got up and went to the kitchen to get a glass of cold milk. Nothing unusual, I’ve done this on many nights. As I walked past the glass- door to the deck I noticed a large black …
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreHow often we cry to God for our needs. How frustrated we feel when in place of a voice of thunder booming in rapid response to our plight, silence answers us, year after year, till we begin to wonder in what way we might have…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MorePersonal experience with…
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I recall that it took me over an hour and a half to drive from north of Gulf Shores back to Spanish Fort, a trip that under normal conditions would have taken me about 35 or 40 minutes. And there was virtually no other traffic on the…
By Earby Markham
Read MoreIf it isn't all true…
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Martha Jane Canary got her handle, Calamity Jane, because a lot of folks said, “You get daydream. Calamity Jane may occasionally have been a…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreIf we can’t overcome…
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There are gaps in the tree-line where six tall trees once blocked the sky. The storms of spring knocked them down. I’ve watched…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreLiam has always known he was adopted. His adoptive parents had always been honest about that. He did see Alan and Josie, who raised him, as his parents, but now, in his late twenties, he started to wonder about his biological parents. The idea niggled at…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreNobody knows what’s …
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Don’t we all? The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. The groundhog surveys my backyard for exactly the same reason. The birds on the deck are glad to have discovered the delicious seeds somebody foolishly …
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreSometimes on your writing career journey, you come to that point where you feel you have nothing to write about, and might never get something to write about …
By Benjamin Nambu
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