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.
…few weeks after his grandfather’s funeral Tony’s parents invited him and his sister over for a take away. Tony had agreed straight away. If it involved beer and curry, he’d replied, then count me in. He found his sister Sarah and his parents in the kitchen. His dad greeted him and handed him a…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreThe morning after 300 people suddenly drop dead for no apparent reason, a young man walks into a police…
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…hours since the first confirmed reports hit the news of people just dropping dead for no apparent reason, a total of 357 known fatalities had been reported by the authorities. Spanning four states, with Southern New Jersey being hit the hardest, the victims had absolutely nothing in common with…
By Michael Fright
Read MoreThe Stranger in Chock-Full-o’Nuts is the story of the beginning of a love affair between a young woman and a much older man. It is the man who possesses the aura of the supernatural.
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…as a struggling young actress, I first lived in the city, I had worked for a while as an office temp. After several months, I got a job on the morning shift in Chock-Full-o’Nuts on 57th Street and Eighth…
By Antoinette Carone
Read MoreMinoru is trapped working in a brothel in turn of the century Japan. But he has a dream to come to America. He…
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….early morning at a house of prostitution in a small city in the southern part of the island of Honshu, Japan. The year is 1910. Shizuko, a beautiful woman in her late thirties, prepares breakfast. Her 17-year-old son Minoru opens the door and is carrying cordwood for the kitchen stove. The morning is cold and both Shizuko and Minoru wear…
By Anonymous
Read MoreThis story traces the life of a traditional healer tasked by her ancestors to find grief-healing…
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…month-long journey from Madjembeni—a small scenic village that flowed with fresh water. The water smelled of fish and pebbles in Bushbuckridge to the waterverse. It also smelled of cows and wild animals because that’s where they also…
By Keketso Mashigo
Read More…peered around his computer monitor. His manager, at the desk facing his, glanced away from his own screen. He raised a what is it? eyebrow.
‘Am I okay to finish half an hour early tonight?’
His manager paused a moment before telling him it was fine. Peter had expected that…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreHow does your view of your life change if suddenly your IQ is raised?
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…her since second grade. Kayla’s family had moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania and there she was, a slender little thing with her head hanging shyly, thick blond hair pulled into two ponytails and swinging prettily…
By Margaret Karmazin
Read MoreAt 9:00 p.m., a thunderstorm forced him to climb to 10,000 feet to fly above the…
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…miles from Le Bourget Air Field, he began to see the flares. Less than 33 hours earlier, 500 people had watched the 25-year-old pilot take off from a muddy Roosevelt Field runway in New York. He hoped to become the first…
By Pete Black
Read More…felt his marriage to Susan had been on the rocks for years. Things just weren’t right between them. They were completely different people. These days they hardly spoke to each other and when they did it usually ended in an argument. The niggling doubts he’d been having for years were increasing as their marriage trundled on. They were just going through the motions. They could have an argument about…
By Chris Platt
Read More…so many of the wounded because it was a short drive from Lowry Air Force Base. Lowry was on the flat plains just east of Denver. On almost any day, the planes flying in from the west could be seen coming over the mountains, descending to the runway in a perfectly straight line as though they were all connected to the same…
By Richard Levy
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