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.
…ago, in a village, there lived two friends. One was Aarvi, 10 years old and Arnav, 15 years old. They used to do everything together. They were inseparable. They play, read, eat, gossip together. Arnav used to play flute which was euphoric to Aarvi. Every afternoon Arnav used to play flute and Aarvi used to listen silently. While listening to the sound of the flute, Aarvi used to get mesmerised in blissful…
By Monalisa Parida
Read More…was all but found. Souls that cried and wept.
Slaves to this earth, dust, body they’re bound…
By Katrenia Busch
Read MoreThe irony of liberty
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…staggers out of the passenger’s seat of my 2-door gold mini-Renault. Ramesh painfully clambers out from the back. “Ok,” I cheerfully make a declaration. “Let’s go for a walk. Phew. 30 degrees Celsius.” I wonder if my forced gusto can disguise Rajkumari’s news of her terminal cancer diagnosis from this…
By Kelly Kaur
Read MoreFishing trip with the Old Man.
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…on a fishing trip with the Old Man and my Uncle Johnny when I was eleven and was beginning to think for myself. Uncle Johnny wasn't really my uncle but was the husband of my mother's cousin. I was told to call him Uncle Johnny, so I did as I was told. He was a good natured guy who told hilarious…
By Judge Santiago Burdon
Read More…sun is setting over the western mountain range as a young man who looks to be reaching adulthood stands beside a coffin. There are no more than ten people in the cemetery with him, waiting for him to…
By C.L.Norby
Read More…finished! You know that right? Doesn’t matter how many times you go all in on a bluff, your luck is starting to look like a dry well in a desert ghost town,” said Isaiah, while he glanced at the two and eight in his hand, still debating over whether or not he wanted to place a…
By C.L.Norby
Read MoreEliza is the perfect daughter to a domineering mother, until she quietly rebels.
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…never had a good answer, and secretly she didn't want to give a good answer. Why she had such a compliant little girl had to do with constant repetition, with beginning early with her demands and, perhaps, with having an impressionable…
By Anita G. Gorman
Read MoreThe end of the world is coming! Is it? Have you ever wondered what the Goddesses…
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…the coldest winter on record,” some say; “there has been snow where we have no data for snow…
By C. Holloway Ashwanden
Read MoreThe morning after the bombing, Fred Shuttlesworth’s congregation begged him to cancel…
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…late-night explosion reduced the small house to shambles and rattled windows a mile away. Ku Klux Klan members had placed 15 sticks of dynamite beneath the home of Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church. Neighbors and police arrived to find Shuttlesworth, his wife, and children…
By Pete Black
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