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.
…had been interested in nature and wildlife since he was a kid. Childhood trips to nature reserves and summers spent in darkest North Wales, had given Paul a love of the wilderness and the great outdoors. In his teens he had discovered the efforts being made to preserve wildlife. He had been hooked instantly. And now, in his late-twenties, he spent a lot of his free time joining in with bat-surveys or counting newts…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreSometimes there is no answer to that question we ask our parent.
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…toe touch of the cold December water. Lazy waves lap at the shoreline, but farther out, the ocean changes from calm bright blue to dark chop. Water reaches the top ruffles of my navy-blue swimsuit. My foot lands on a hard-shelled something. Below are black…
By Margo Rife
Read More…was the resting place for citizens who had died as early as 1795 and as late as 2020. Most of the tombstones were modest, and in recent years small plaques in the ground had become more popular than large tombstones or obelisks. No one these days put up a mausoleum, but a few dotted the landscape of the old…
By Anita G. Gorman
Read MoreA young man looks for an apartment
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…I found myself having to look for an apartment. I just graduated from college and living with my parents has been okay but leaves a lot to be desired. It's cryptic for sex life. There is nothing…
By Donte-highwater
Read MoreThe 15,000 people who crowded into Madison Square Garden that night…
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…than 30,000 people packed into The Garden that evening. In living rooms across America, millions more sat glued to their radios. James J. “Jimmy” Braddock was fighting reigning heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer for the world…
By Pete Black
Read More…waited patiently for his father to answer the telephone. It always took his dad a while to get to the phone. Despite Liam’s requests his dad had refused to replace the dated telephone with a new cordless model. His dad was seventy years old and didn’t move as well as he used to but would accept no help from anyone. Finally he picked…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreHow to Become a Pariah at Home
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…an Irish funeral. We were Irish in the sense of I was the 5th generation removed from Ellis Island. I had always doubted that Great, Great Grandpa coming into America through the trials and tedium of Ellis…
By Leah Holbrook Sackett
Read More…a bad day at work Paul Humphreys needed a drink. His head hurt with the stress that the day at the office had put him through. What he really needed now was a pint with a friend. They could set the world to rights and down a few pints in the pub. One of his oldest friends would be up for it. Keith Vickers, known as Vic to his…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreWith Thomas Edison's industrial complex in flames, he told his 24 year old son, Charles, "Son, go get your mother. Tell her to get her friends. They will never see another fire like this one."
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…started in building 41 on the Edison complex, which housed the chemicals for making film. By 6:30 p.m. it…
By Pete Black
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