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.
Animals on the menu
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…Goose had ended up on the menu is anyone's guess. Everything was going great. The trip down came off without a hitch. They made it to Miami in time for their cousins White party (When all the swans gather together to hook-up by the ocean). The city was beautiful all decorated for the holidays. And the weather…
By Alex Almeida
Read MoreRats and Cockroaches team up to take over the world. The great Infestation
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…a 24 year old unemployed young man struggles to find the key to his new apartment. He’s a lazy young fellow who was still living with his parents till a week ago. Though he’s parents were rich and influential they wanted their only son to be able to be independent, get a job, get a house and get…
By El Legados
Read More…warm light above the booth I shared with Caty is glistening off the tip of my nose -- I can see it in the bottom of my peripheral vision. I want to wipe it clean of the shiny oil that seeped from my pores but it seemed like it could be a rude interruption of Caty’s chatter. She’s talking about “some serious shit” -- that’s how she phrased it when she texted me not five minutes after my body was melting into my…
By Lauren Michelle
Read More…was losing it—losing her grip and her birthright; but, she didn’t know it yet…
What she did know was that her neighbors were all missing the point, while they threw all their little points at each other.
The neighborhood was rundown and spawning crime, with people ready to abandon it to the…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read More…Chairman publicly denounced the Tongue of Lightning, expressed his extreme reluctance at carrying out the lawful execution of certain individuals who had spread dangerous rumors concerning the purported wizard’s plan for their salvation—had a group of distinguished scientific advisors speak to the impossiblility of worse storms—the scientific proof that better weather was assured by the cycles…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read MoreYoung female starting on a journey to find her place in the world
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…walked along the outdoor mall of stores that included her personal favourites, Starbucks
and The Gap. She wore her usual beat up jeans and a NASA tee shirt from Target. She
remembered splurging on the tee shirt because she loved NASA. Typically, she would have…
By Alex Almeida
Read More“The Boy in Red” has as its backdrop the Nagorno-Karabakh War of the mid 1990s. The war had shaped the present and the future of the young generation, the main character included. However, the six year old Hyke is about to…
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…concert took place outside the kindergarten. Blue spruce strove to survive the prolonged dry days of Armenian summer, but the war had not helped. Dawn's light shone gold on shattered limbs amid the blue needles. Mulberries…
By Sean J.H. Rubin
Read MoreHideo has a gift, and soon finds out just how important it is to others.
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…month had passed. The term 'noodify' - an amalgamation of nudify and noodles - a term coined by a Washington Post article Hideo was reading, wide-eyed, that had caught his eye and made him chuckle. He couldn't believe the news had reached America so soon. He was still in shock about it all. He looked up…
By Chris Grey
Read More…bought our first place in Missouri and learned quickly all country folk ain't as friendly as you would think. We stayed there just long enough to sell it and get the Hell out of the area. We were looking for a new place so we would be ready when that one sold. We were out in the country just looking at the views of the mountains when we topped a hill. There was one beautiful sight…
By William Bailey
Read MoreQueer youth romance
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…old style Pepsi machine. Coin slot only. The options oscillated between light bulb on and light bulb off. The machined whirred and sputtered out of cadence, and a continuous low hum accompanied. She sighed and swore under her…
By Alex Almeida
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