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.
The awesome prowess …
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…notice of Achilles came when I was very young. I had only to reach behind my head to the bookcase that also served as headboard. The encyclopedias of Funk & Wagnalls stretched the length of the shelf. Sometime around third grade…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreTimmy wonders why…
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…was never robust, certainly not daring. His siblings and cousins forgot that he even existed. That was all fine with Timmy. He found all that rushing about…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreDecline has no…
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… fair to characterize the young of the current world as dismissively as I have in this title. They’re not all vulgar, ignorant, and impatient. Just an ever-increasing number of them. It’s not so much the young, as it is generations of…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreTo the modern mind…
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…officially ended 1806 A.D. when the last Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II, was defeated by Napoleon Bonaparte at the battle of…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreIt’s unreachable from…
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… early years I read a lot of historical fiction. One book I remember well was five hundred-plus pages long. It bulked with promise. Surely I thought, a book of this size must have much to tell. The title of the book...
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe Fuegian's had …
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…first word after stepping from cabin to deck was probably - brrr . . . Tierra del Fuego is cold all year long; spring, summer, winter, and fall, nearly indistinguishable winter temperature soar to as high as …
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThere is a dark side…
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… business, this business of humor; dangerous, too, comedians are always talking about, “killin’ their audience. Ordinary folk, in a fit of laughter say, “Stop, stop, please, your killin’ me!”! When a comedian fails to get laughs…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreLegend never dies.
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… the 2nd of July, not a cloud was in the sky. Amelia Erhart went flying high that day. ith her partner, Capt. Noone, She sailed off into the sky, And fell into the ocean, far away. Here’s to you, here’s to you, Amelia Erhart, America’s first lady of the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MorePlain stuff is shrouded…
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…of snow set the bamboo in motion. It seems as though the bamboo is dancing in savage celebration of the winter storm. Nonsense of course. The bamboo does the same dance in summer…
By K. L. Shipley
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