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’ve been writing stories since he was a kid. Being a writer was all I ever wanted to be. It was a childhood hobby that I never quite grew out of. All my family and friends would read my stories. As soon as I finished typing up my story, I would…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreReturning home on foot after work
through a shortcut behind houses
poorly planned
bumped into a lady…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreLife can easily become …
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Do you sometimes feel useless? Like you literally have no use. When your eyes open in the morning, do you often feel confused? Overwhelmed because …
By Linda Troxell
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 MoreUsually a young person has a…
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At twelve, she was the picture of health.
Her rosy cheeks and clear complexion …
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreIts name is taboo
we do not utter it
for fear that speaking of Death
may bring it…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreFear, doubts, the long years and motions
morphed into a giant illusion
of an end that would never come
and of tides that would …
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreA variation on Dylan Thomas…
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He’ll rage against the dying of my light
but old age took its toll along the way.
He doesn’t know I think the …
By Ken Gosse
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