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.
Lester Greenwald had an electric train set at 5; then again at 55—he had to find a hobby or be slowly driven mad by boredom and a nagging housewife when business was slow. Because he worked from home there was no …
By CraigE
Read MoreHollywood has its many ghost stories: an ethereal Marilyn Monroe sashaying through the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel; John Belushi’s shadow figure seen lurking about Chateau Marmont, a 1929 gothic-style hotel and bungalows where he OD’d on a lethal…
By CraigE
Read MoreI’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
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