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.
…had been waiting outside the gate for a long, unsettling time. I had a lot of thinking to do out there in the oppressive, midmorning sun. I looked to the left and the right. I saw nothing but the large guard tower. There was a strange sound overhead in the powerlines, the sound of static electricity. There was a fly, one pesky little bugger, who kept buzzing around my face. "Shoo," I said, trying to scare it away. But the former…
By Jack Bristow
Read More…was born skeptical, under the sign of Gemini.
The only intelligent one of my so-called friends said
I was a philosophical miscreant, a bear in a depressing
life. Cold comfort in anyone’s age. I grew up on the…
By Susan Maxwell Campbell
Read MoreHi - this piece was inspired by the death of my mum when I was 14
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…pricking behind her eyes. Her mind foggy with the pain of what was happening. She felt unsure of her footing as she left the hospital room and walked. She didn’t know where. She just knew she needed to leave. Leave the sights. The sounds. The smells. Somehow leave the sorrow of what she was witnessing behind…
By Zoë Ricard
Read More…European settlers
Or their American descendants.
They thought the sound of it
Was pure gibberish…
By Dee Allen.
Read MoreThe irony of liberty
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…staggers out of the passenger’s seat of my 2-door gold mini-Renault. Ramesh painfully clambers out from the back. “Ok,” I cheerfully make a declaration. “Let’s go for a walk. Phew. 30 degrees Celsius.” I wonder if my forced gusto can disguise Rajkumari’s news of her terminal cancer diagnosis from this…
By Kelly Kaur
Read More…finished! You know that right? Doesn’t matter how many times you go all in on a bluff, your luck is starting to look like a dry well in a desert ghost town,” said Isaiah, while he glanced at the two and eight in his hand, still debating over whether or not he wanted to place a…
By C.L.Norby
Read More…sky arranges itself.
Clouds gather like starlings
And the heart clenches.
The cat seeks out a warm…
By Kevin McDermott
Read MoreWhat makes people dissatisfied with life? Why do you think even the rich are never satisfied…
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…people dissatisfied with life? Why do you think even the rich are never satisfied with what they have? Read the story to find out how futile it is to change one’s outward circumstances to make…
By Marvelio Oxford
Read MoreIn nations and societies undergoing religious and generational changes, the courage of the youth may be carrying the most of the societal burden.
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…square paving stones lay in successive arcs around the steps to Taksim Park. Fanning across this broad space, they shone white in the warm…
By Gene Parola
Read MoreRemove self-defeat and find your flow...
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…you feel that you know, will affect the magic that you naturally grow.
You can choose to be your own best friend, or sabotage your success, like a foe.
Blindly walking through each day, you can’t complain, when you stub your…
By Tracey Ross
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