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.
Young boy and family fend off Valentine's Vampires
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…is here again at the old Comet Mall. Hey, howdy, chill to see y’all again for the returning Comet Mall shoppers. And welcome to all those who pulled off the interstate for lunch or that damn car light that needs a new bulb. Remember a Comet Shopper never…
By Alex Almeida
Read MoreSometimes it takes a dead man to make life worth living again.
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…like nothing else. Okay, maybe second only to the soul-sucking presence of my fifteen-year old son. Caleb's only communication skills consisted of the ever-present smartphone. He certainly wasn't texting me. We moseyed up and down the aisles at Bullseye. Hunting for school supplies. Each…
By Steven Roisum
Read More…jumped at the sound of the doorbell, ripping the paper she had been reading in two. Her body tensed. She dropped the two halves of the newspaper. They floated to the floor, slowly and peacefully.
'Hi how are you,' she heard Adam say, from the front door downstairs. 'Great, doing just…
By Tim Oke
Read More…it lay helplessly on the laminate flooring, with its entire body crushed and its own blood and pus seamlessly pouring out everywhere, the spider looked pretty damn dead to Frank. He couldn’t be entirely sure however, as a few of its legs were still twitching in sudden, jolting movements. It could just be a reflex action, he thought to himself. Either way, he didn’t dare try to put his face anywhere near the gooey mess…
By Martin White
Read More…story of her death was a familiar one. A dark night, sheets of rain, a driver who couldn’t see. The wreck ejected her from her vehicle, straight through the glass; it shattered in the shape of a heart. The pain she endured was brief. One minute she was there, and the next she simply was not, and the pain, though extreme, did not consume…
By Holly Wright
Read More… Island was home to around 50,000 people—place of temperate weather—land of great fertility.
There were two smaller islands close-by—thirty minutes boat-trip-near—one rich in iron ore, to the North—one supplying an abundance of wood from many tree species, to the…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read MoreAnimals 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
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