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.
…decided to become happy, she was not exactly sure how to make that come about. She had often immersed herself in the dregs of misery, and she was acutely aware of the consequences, which were not good at all. Most of the time she felt depressed and hopeless, as did, she noticed, most of…
By Anita G. Gorman
Read MoreA mother and her son hide their emotions on the morning after he moves out to his college hostel
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…he howled from under the blanket. There was no response. He pulled the blanket doubly over his face so that the sound of the alarm doesn’t disturb him. It kept…
By Ranjit Kulkarni
Read More…miss video games. It was a time waster as my mom called it but I definitely had some great times playing even if I was just playing by myself. They were my home away from home. The friends I never had. The family I never had. The lovers I never had. Whatever I was missing. The sounds, the colors, the catchy…
By Cristina Collazo
Read MoreAfter an environmental disaster a leadership family due to land ownership prepare…
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…his youthful age Paulie still fulfilled the obligations to have all the harness leather in the right place when hooking up the Zebra to the family transportation carriage. After making sure everything was secure, he called out, “Momma, Poppa, ready and set to…
By Marc OBrien
Read MoreThe narrator has difficulty renewing her Writer's License.
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…been issued my Writer's License on my birthday, July 15, during the previous year. Now it was time, I noticed, to renew the license, a license I had barely used. Still, if I intended to write again, I would need to traipse down to the license bureau, the same bureau that issued driver's licenses, license…
By Anita G. Gorman
Read More…the day of his thirtieth birthday, Nicholas Daring sits at a non-descript wooden office table in a small room, an open safe deposit box in front of him. Anticipation has brought him this far and now he hesitates to pull out the contents of the container. It had been thirteen years since his father’s mysterious…
By Ellen Bennett
Read MoreThe roaring '20's brought Wall Street to the attention of the common man…
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…filled the air. America was on the move. Jobs were plentiful, Detroit had just reported record sales of cars, and money was flowing freely under the watchful eye of our quiet President. In the investment world, whispers of sure things were on the lips of the well-heeled on tony Country Club…
By Fred Miller
Read MoreIn an era of no female civil engineers, Emily led the world's largest suspension bridge…
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…tears in his eyes, Washington Roebling watched through his telescope as his wife Emily rode in a carriage across the newly completed Brooklyn Bridge. On her lap was a rooster, a symbol of…
By Pete Black
Read MoreA mirror can reflect the beginning and ending
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…the courthouse, Dale walked down the steps behind Sue. He wanted to say something to her, but he knew Sue did not want to talk to him, plus she was on the arm of another man. Once Dale got into his vehicle and started driving down the road, he felt lost in his hurt, anger, and…
By Nancy Lou Henderson
Read MoreA grandmother suddenly has to take care of her three grandchildren.
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…daughter showed up one fine summer day at her mother's house in Ashleyville, Ohio. Catherine had not been the model daughter Agatha wanted, but she was her only daughter. Agatha, now seventy and a widow, had not seen Catherine or her grandchildren for…
By Anita G. Gorman
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