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.
Inspired by Jake
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…saw the open door. It was too much of a temptation. He bolted out into the sunshine, jumping, running, twirling in circles, and looking over his shoulder to see if anyone knew he was outside. It wasn’t the fist time he had breeched his confines, and most likely it wouldn’t be the last time. Princess, his friend who lived…
By Robert L. Scarry
Read MoreDespite Milton Wright's strong conviction was "Flying was intended for the angels," his two bicycle-mechanics young sons were fascinated with the idea. Their flying machine changed the world and proved once again…
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…conference with the comment, “We live in an exciting age, the age of inventions.” The United Brethren bishop interrupted him, “What kinds of…
By Pete Black
Read More…was praying to her most illustrious ancestress.
The Fire-Breather was afield and not just harrowing the upland villages.
Luenza intoned her propitiations to Launesis:
“Forgive me for my…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read More…was struck down to worthlessness.
His body would barely function.
His mind was thin and brittle.
Calefas felt he had been cursed and thought he knew…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read More…is challenging. Anyone who has raised children knows it isn’t all peaches ‘n cream. There are good times, and times best forgotten. However, all of those times are priceless.
My wife, Jean and I were fortunate to have four healthy children: two girls and two boys. We often thought it a Mendelian model: two girls, two boys; to blondes, two brunettes; two with blue eyes, two with…
By Robert L. Scarry
Read More…World was in trouble.
At least according to Maslestes.
He walked out of his hut and gazed at the heavens.
He walked back in and adjusted the spheres…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read More… people hoped Wurm was still asleep but they could feel the mountain tremble from his movements.
Do dragons dream?
The people feared his waking and interrupting over a thousand years of peace…
They all knew Wurm was dangerous—legends told of his fire-breathing, not to mention what…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read More…the mound in the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium. For a long moment he studied the scoreboard in center field and thought back on his life – just six outs away from pitching a no-hitter – a dream he had imagined since childhood. He was the most improbable of boyhood…
By Pete Black
Read MoreWhen things are put into perspective
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…smiling clown on my clock face. I don’t know why. I’ve had it for years.
The same beeping alarm too.
It goes…
By Henry Bladon
Read MoreIn 1878, a supernatural carpenter builds a miraculous staircase in the Loretto Chapel in Sante Fe. More than 150 years later the staircase still baffles visitors.
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…nuns stared sadly at the choir loft, located 22 feet above the chapel floor. They were distraught. Desperate. After five long years, their chapel was complete except…
By Pete Black
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