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.
We live our everyday lives…
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…does it happen that two persons of equal intelligence, rationality, and good will can come to equally opposite interpretations of the very same set of facts? It is something that has puzzled me for…
By K. L. Shipley
Read More…hit with a painful thud, swiftly followed by a crack as my head bounced off the hardwood floor. A thrumming throb began to grow in my left ear, as a nob swelled on the same side of my…
By Fay L. Loomis
Read More…childhood haunt where I’d buried treasure long, long ago. I found nothing. The landmarks I remembered were no longer there. It was the right piece of land, but no shrub…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe modern world is convinced…
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…of one father and two mothers. The ages-long struggle between them began at their birth and has never ceased. Hagar was the mother of the first born, Ishmael. Sarah was the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreA memory of meeting…
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…I can smell things frying: corndogs, doughnuts, turkey wings, and any number of other members of several food groups. The first tingles of the coming winter and blowing dust…
By Russell Willis
Read MoreI live content with…
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…remarkable how reliably our standing-in-life improves upon being buried. Scoundrels become saints. Misers become prudent. Nasty characters of all sorts become decent…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreHealth 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
Read MoreHealth is as much a…
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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
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