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.
…wet is falling from the sky. It’s an unsettled wetness that can’t make-up it’s mind. Should it be snow or rain? It shifts by fits and turns. Now sleet, then snow, then rain again. By afternoon it decides to be snow, though not a resolute snow. It lingers on the tree-branches but melts on the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreIsabella took a…
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…wanted to see everything. That's all. If proper Victorian ladies were expected to prefer the parlor to anything outside, it was nothing to her. She had little interest in being…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MorePlease press . . .
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…ding, ding, buzz . . . “Welcome! Thank you for calling Multi-Maga Services Amalgamated. This call may be recorded for security purposes. Para escuchar este mensaje en español…
By K. L. Shipley
Read More…invest attention and resources into something, the more it hurts when it collapses. And the more serious the collapse, the higher your chances of a permanent breakdown. There are things that hit people and they…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreI didn't really understand…
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…Bud let me use his old rifle whenever I wanted. These days, giving a kid free use of a rifle would end in seriously unpleasant Child-Services intervention, but in the countryside of the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read More…is in constant motion, constantly rotating and revolving around the sun, leaving behind old ways, old thinking, racing towards updated thinking, modifying old ways to accommodate bigger…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read More…a long period of time souls drifted out of the soul world to the corporeal planet where they play their part in the cycle of birth and rebirth. Creator however always stays forever in the soul world…
By Jennifer Forrest
Read MoreThe forced separation…
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…very name is as mysterious and romantic as a Louisiana bayou. She is quintessential to Cajun mythos; a misty nearly-sainted presence emblematic of the Acadia diaspora. It matters not that few know her story. It matters less that the story is more poetry than…
By K. L. Shipley
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