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.
Some part of our soul…
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… words that in combination resonant with mysterious implication. They are the last two words of the first verse of a poem by William Blake, The Tyger. I first read this poem in high…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreA spiritual man struggling…
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…itemized lists in his hands, he moved slowly up and down the shelves of the St. Louis Mercantile next to the St. Louis cemetery. Cemeteries in Louisiana are very much a fabric of Louisiana culture…
By The Barefoot Cajun
Read More…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
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