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.
How can anyone be bored or melancholy?
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…often travel hand-in-hand. Two sour friends whose only consolation is each other. I’ve never been bored or melancholy. I can’t imagine it. They’re so many things to think about and do. The real problem is too…
By K. L. Shiplley
Read More…started teaching a few months before the September 11 terrorist attacks. I had two nonfiction writing classes as a brand new instructor with the Gotham Writers’ Workshop in New York City. Back then, the school advertised…
By Karol Nielsen
Read MoreCan the Fortune-Teller see what's coming down the road?
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…small comfort when number ten runs you over. Still, the exception proves the rule. Ninety percent of all worries come to nothing. We all know that. It doesn’t stop our needless…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreA schedule makes it easier way…
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…first prayer, then prepare a small breakfast for myself and Lady Tallahassee, and another day begins - on schedule. I sip my coffee from a large white cup of the sort favored by unhurried boulevardiers, sitting at charming small tables outside so many of the Parisian cafes I’ve seen in…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreIt's not a club you can choose to join.
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…few lines read from an interview have remained in my mind ever since. I thought it was the 1965 Nat Hentoff Playboy interview with Bob Dylan. It wasn’t. I’ve reread that interview on the internet and two more besides. I can’t find the interview I recall. Maybe it was in Rolling Stone, or the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreShouldn't interpretation of the law…
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…was a time not so long ago, when reading the law was the job Judges were hired to do. No more was expected – no more was tolerated. No one was interested in the Judge’s opinion of the law. Opinions about right or wrongness of a law was made by the representatives that…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreWe tell ourselves it had…
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…in her arms while the vet injected the lethal toxin. She held him in her arms until he was dead. She cried as she took him home wrapped in his favorite blanket. She cried when she buried him under the weeping willow she planted when he was a…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreLike all forms of energy, passion works best under restraint.
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…sort of emotion. It brings glory and ruin without discrimination. The word, passio, meant suffering in its original Latin form. It still means suffering in the Christian liturgy of The Passion of the Christ. Suffering remains implicit in any sort of passion. What takes you up can also pull you…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreWords aren't enough to describe those…
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…poets sing. Over and over they remind us that Cupid’s arrow pierces the heart. And we say, “Yes, how true”, yet something in us is not completely persuaded. Only the blood flowing from our very own wound will make us really…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreTunde Onakoya is changing the world with the power of Chess…
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…me, the greatest miracle of chess is in the innate ability of a PAWN [the least valuable piece] to become a QUEEN [the most valuable piece]. - Tunde Onakoya, Founder Chess In The…
By Daniel Ayinla
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