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.
I’m truly sorry you had to find my remains as such, but I felt that taking my own life was the only way out of my gnawing madness—a madness I can neither contain nor accept; a madness that has stalked me since birth and was strained to…
By CraigE
Read MoreAn appointment with a ‘pain…
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There once was a guy from St. Loo,
Who had not one ego but two.
He could feel light as a…
By CraigE
Read MoreYouth! Youth! Sublime and heavenly! Blink though and you’re suddenly seventy! Distant memories are lucid and bright. What the f was dinner last night? Tossing footballs and plastic discs? Now nary impossible with …
By CraigE
Read MoreThe Pillsbury, Connecticut, graduating class of 1938 didn't have much to dance about as the country was still slogging through a nine-year national economic depression. Duncan Arbuckle had even less to dance about at prom…
By CraigE
Read MoreDeath comes in threes. On March 3, 2023, inside Boston’s John P. Bedlow Memorial Hospital, the flatlined trifecta included an atheist, a Muslim, and a…
By CraigE
Read More… had their first fight over something that was supposed to be a romantic celebration of their perfect union–where to spend their first anniversary. The bride wanted the Caribbean; the groom, anywhere else that didn't perpetuate …
By CraigE
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