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.
Health concerns…
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…things are as inevitable as closing time. Lives, films, Empires, and everything else comes to an end. "Last call for alcohol" is the classic example. Boasts, clever talk, and hopeful lusts…
By K. L. Shipley
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…words are known to most of us as a single line from a truism made famous by Benjamin Franklin in his popular…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe last day is usually…
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…storm hit Florida with hurricane wind, rain, and flood. The talking heads on TV wrung their hands and opined, "The worst disaster in five-hundred years". The Man-Made Global-Change crowd said…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe sadness of resignation…
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…found this an annoying thing to say. It’s a statement of helplessness. Every serf, peasant, and slave probably said much the same thing. You might as well say nothing at all and…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe saddest moment may…
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…the young of any kind of animal are invariably cute. Not infants, but babies past the baby stage, and grown enough to toddle. They're round and cuddly like stuffed toy…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreMuch is made of the “creative…
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…remember a sleepy afternoon in third grade. I’d been puzzling over our new vocabulary list. I was having…
By K. L. Shipley
Read More…people around us who are only there for our money or services. Once that need wilts, you won't see them…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreHappiness is fleeting, Sorrow is…
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Cut to black - let mournful yet triumphant…
By K. L. Shipley
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