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.
A personal memory of how a single incident can change life’s trajectory.
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Many years ago, I stopped into Roederer’s Tavern in Burlington, Iowa, for a quick Pabst. To my surprise, sitting there at the bar was the former Burlington Junior College basketball coach Ed Sparling. Back in the late 1960s…
By Don Gardiner
Read MoreThe short, better life of a rescued cat.
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Mew doesn’t knock anything onto the floor.
He doesn’t play games; doesn’t stare out the door.
He’ll climb down a cat tree but never climb…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreAs we age, we attempt to …
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Every day I wake up hurting.
It was not this bad a year ago.
Past accidents did cause …
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreMatcha, jasmine, gunpowder, hot, warm, iced, cookies, pocky, ice cream—
I love all your forms and textures,
Your bitterness a splendid…
By Dana Trick
Read More…used to crave for attention. I would do anything to get it, although at the time I didn’t realize it was an obsession, tainted with subtle…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read More… on the edge
of the highest mountain
fear has no room in my heart.
I shake not, I stand…
By Lawal Rasheed
Read MoreAbout how I became…
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… a line from a gangster film I saw once, ever since I can remember I wanted to be… a writer. To me, being a writer was better than being the heavyweight champion of the world, better than playing football for England or for Manchester United…
By Chris Platt
Read More…recall the first dead body you had to see? Mine was my great grandmother. That’s…
By Joe S. Thomas
Read MoreTo my wife, for four years now…
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…too quiet, there is no constant chatter
All I can hear is our little girl sleeping soundly
Her cries tonight filled the house…
By Ellysa Greenhalgh
Read MoreAs the 'year of the narcissists'…
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…I have found
Have heard of the Goddess called Nemesis
Who cast her spell…
By Andrea W R Jones
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