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.
Liam 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
Read MoreThe phrase, “Nobody cares…
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You can’t. No one can. No matter how sympathetic, or empathetic, you may be to someone else’s pain, you can’t feel it. The nervous system only works for…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreLocal flora grow as they will.
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Too often overlooked because of their undemanding ways. Local flora wait demurely like wallflowers never asked to dance, while exotic flora flirt…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreWhen there's nothing left to adore.
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Yes, it’s come to that.
When this cup is drunk…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreI vow to together, apart.
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Another quiet morning. I sit with my coffee and look through the window. Outside I see Squirrel sitting on her balcony, thoughtfully chewing on …
By K. L. Shipley
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