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.
A dystopia where women compete in board games to win husbands
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…SEQUENCE OF NEWSPAPER HEADLINES WITH TV MONITOR AUDIO - DAY
A NEWSPAPER photo montage and TV MONITOR VoiceOver of 21st and 22nd Century Viral
infection kills men until only about 1000-1 female to male ratio remains. Men are wanted…
By Alex Almeida
Read MoreWhen a Miami drug cartel expands their business to a sleepy Florida fishing village, the town’s police chief calls upon ‘Breath Taker’, a feared Seminole demon. The demon sweeps away many innocents forcing the police chief to strike a deal with 'Breath Taker' for absolution.
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…Jake Billie, 12-years old, sturdy and dark brown, feet that had not seen shoes since the last day of school, find him always in cut off jeans and a tank top, some from the local Salvation Army, and maybe a baseball hat. Black hair and black eyes. Not Seminole, but raised by the Seminoles since…
By Michael Prongue
Read More…High School friends qualify for Race World’s, virtual “24-hour Enduro” season finale’. Can the geeky duo survive…
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…the center of a garage sitting atop saw horses are two soap box racers. A small hand holding a pair of pliers straightens a cotter pin holding a wheel on. The second…
By Michael Prongue
Read MoreA marathon is 26.2 miles and a couch potato has a year to get in shape. His raucous…
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INT. CHEX's home - nIGHT
FADE IN:
…(Charlie Sanchez) 25-year old, 5'11", brown hair, honest, real, launching his career as a Network Engineer that makes good money at SpaceX- Kennedy Space Center, and is in search of a family. A bad break-up with his girlfriend has landed him in raucous apartment…
By Michael Prongue
Read MoreI sometimes enter the submissions for short plays by theatre groups, I’ve never been selected but they get hundreds for only a few slots. This doesn’t stop me being proud of my work and so the following is a short play I wrote. It’s an Agatha Christie style mystery.
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ACT I
Scene 1
…old fashioned sitting room (1920s esq). There is an analogue clock on the wall saying seven to twelve but it doesn’t move for the whole play. There are three people. ANTHEA in her 20s with a string of beads round her neck, the flapper. She is standing, just right of the centre of the stage, by a table looking in to a mirror. Near her is an empty wooden…
By Arthur Hofn
Read More…triumphant atmosphere filled the courtroom as Judge Daniel Sackor entered at 9 a.m. at the June 5th sitting with an air of affability, bordered on many years of judging criminal cases. The defendant, Janet Dagoseh, was facing a preliminary hearing in the case in which she was denying culpability in the death of her husband by fire in an incident in central Monrovia on May 25.
State prosecutor Joshua Sackor walked his client through the night of the incident, to establish her innocence.
“How long had you been married?”
“We had been married for ten years.”
“And he was…
By Omari Jackson
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