Tracie Adams
@tracieadams.bsky.social
Books: Our Lives in Pieces (2025) and Not Finished Yet (2026) Words in Stanchion, Pithead Chapel, Cleaver, Fictive Dream, BULL, Hippocampus 2X Pushcart nominee, BOTN, Best Microfiction and LL Wigleaf Top 50 Retired educator and playwright
Thanks to Flash the Court for giving this story a place to land and the perfect artwork. “A Boy Wants His Mother” ⬇️ flashthecourt.com/2026/10/09/a...
“A Boy Wants His Mother” by Lisa Thornton
“A Boy Wants His Mother” by Lisa Thornton is a moving flash fiction with a circular structure. Thornton uses third-person narration to allow the point-of-view character, a grieving grandmother, to …
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Big thanks to @emergejournal.bsky.social for including “Oh the Places I’ll Virtually Go” in this stunning fall issue! 🙌🏽💕 emergeliteraryjournal.com/oh-the-place...
Oh, the Places I’ll Virtually Go
by Tracie Adams “Let’s work on breathing,” my therapist chirps. It’s 7a.m. Breathing is all I’m doing. I haven’t had breakfast. My teeth are furry. I lower my laptop’s volume, jolted by her Jersey …
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ELJ Editions, Ltd.@emergejournal.bsky.social · last wk.Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 37, is now live: poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction for fall, with magic, humor, acceptance and loss. Join us on the page: emergeliteraryjournal.com/issue-37/
“The song ends. The quiet hurts. I think about that poor sick woman who said she was sorry. Sad Man who wished he could help us but can’t even help hisself.” @tracieadams.bsky.social in @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/safe-enough....
Safe Enough
Safe Enough by Tracie Adams Author’s Note: This story is part of a collection I’m currently writing called Stories from the Lighthouse Motel. The narrator is a teenager on the run with her mother...
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It’s our October issue! Art: Cate Petty Fiction: @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Arden Shostak @jeremymauser.bsky.social Mathieu Parsy Nonfiction: Sharon Goldberg Melissa Fraterrigo Leath Tonino Poetry: @leeh70.bsky.social Cal Freeman pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...
Volume 15, Issue 10
COVER ART BY Cate Petty FICTION RABBITS BY KATHRYN KULPA IN FLORE BY ARDEN SHOSTAK PANDEMONIUM BY JEREMY MAUSER AFTER THE GIFT BY MATHIEU PARSY NONFICTION AUDITION BY SHARON GOLDBERG …
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The old Buick LeSabre ticks and cools around us. Everything we own is packed inside it—three black trash bags full of clothes, a blanket that smells like home, and a cardboard box Mama won't let me touch. Dig "Safe Enough" by @tracieadams.bsky.social: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/safe-enough....
"Mama’s eyes are empty. I remember one time after Daddy’d been gone for months, I asked if she was lonely. She said nah, more like sad. She said sad was when you miss yourself and she’d been sad long before she ever met Daddy." #FlashInTheFeed by @tracieadams.bsky.social !
Cowboy Jamboree@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 2w agoThe old Buick LeSabre ticks and cools around us. Everything we own is packed inside it—three black trash bags full of clothes, a blanket that smells like home, and a cardboard box Mama won't let me touch. Dig "Safe Enough" by @tracieadams.bsky.social: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/safe-enough....
My review of @jdclappwrites.bsky.social “Grit Before Grace” from who else but my favorite small press putting out the best grit lit @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Congratulations and best of luck to our Best of the Net nominees!
"I shove the earbuds in and Blaze Foley’s 'If I Could Only Fly' almost helps me forget my trash bag-cardboard-box-life...." Big love for this amazing piece (the voice!) by @tracieadams.bsky.social in @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social 💙💙💙 www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/safe-enough....
Safe Enough
Safe Enough by Tracie Adams Author’s Note: This story is part of a collection I’m currently writing called Stories from the Lighthouse Motel. The narrator is a teenager on the run with her mother...
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We’re thrilled to welcome Stitch by Allison Field Bell, a collection of flash fiction into the world.
Absolutely thrilled that my debut book, a flash fiction collection, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social is out Oct. 13. Kindle preorders now on Amazon. Printed text available 10/13. Remote launch SAT 11/14, 10:00 am PT. Details soon. Heartfelt thanks @vanwinkle.bsky.social. #flashfiction
Grateful to @dishsoapquart.bsky.social for this BEST OF THE NET nomination for my CNF “For the Love of Hot Mustard” (Dedicated to my nephew. RIP Josh 🙏🏼) Story 🔗 in comments
Dishsoap Quarterly@dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 3w agoBig congratulations to Michelle Li, Jeffrey Heath, @m-demarco-words.bsky.social, Ashley Varela, Rachel Sherman, @ezhang77.bsky.social, @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social, @dallonwrites.bsky.social, @tracieadams.bsky.social, and @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social!!!!
What a night! If you haven’t bought the new releases from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social yet, DO IT. 🎉🫶🏼💥🙌🏽
thedrevlow@thedrevlow.bsky.social · 4w agoThanks to all who came out last night. Great night. Great being able to read with some of my favoritest favorites @vanwinkle.bsky.social @jdclappwrites.bsky.social, and Mark Rogers. Special shout out to @tracieadams.bsky.social for always being crazy supportive of me (& the rest of the Cowboy crew).
We’re loving all the love Issue 3 is getting! Have you read it yet? literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3
ISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · last mo.It's finally the 12th! Which means, Issue 3 is LIVE, folx! 23 fabulous pieces of fiction and non-fiction. Come on in, grab a beanbag, your beverage of choice, and read! And if any of the pieces speak to you, let the author know! And so, here we go! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3
We are delighted to announce our nominations for Best Small Fictions 2027 Congratulations Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social, Mario Aliberto III @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Bradley David Waters, Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social & Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social
A heartfelt thank-you to our longtime nonfiction editor, @stateofkate.bsky.social, as she steps down from her role. We’re so grateful for all she has contributed and wish her all the best! At the same time, please join us in welcoming @dawnsteffler.bsky.social as our new nonfiction editor!
This CNF by @pennypriddy.bsky.social from @pitheadchapel.bsky.social archives is the kind of brilliance I expect and adore from Mollie-- poetic, repeated images spilling like stream-of-conscious, a voice raw & deep speaking straight to our hearts #archivechallenge pitheadchapel.com/pulling-muss...
Pulling Mussels from A Shell
Mollie McLean I gave my baby away and God gave me a Walkman. A year before she was born all I wanted was a band, a boyfriend, a day at the beach. She came to be at the beach. All thin…
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“Inside the bedroom, the boy storms against schist and shale. The policemen wait and wait, for quiet, they wait. You need to come out, son.” This one by @belindarowe.bsky.social broke my heart. I want to wrap my arms around this boy forever. I adopted a kid like him. I’m gonna go call him now. 🥺
MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 2mo ago"When the boy emerges in his boxer shorts, he raises his hands in supplication. His eyes are like islands." - Belinda Rowe mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
If you're in the Richmond, Virginia area, mark your calendars for this. This class is for all writing levels. It's FREE and perfect for getting unstuck, especially when writing those difficult CNF topics. Hope you'll join us. Email me if you're coming (and with any questions.)💜
The precision of the language in this CNF by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social (from the @pitheadchapel.bsky.social archives) is intoxicating and pure-- this is why we ❤️ flash! Every single word is stunning. #archivechallenge pitheadchapel.com/the-hanged-m...
The Hanged Man
Sarp Sozdinler The year my brother stole a car, I tried to shuffle my tarot deck so quietly that Mom wouldn’t hear the luck of our heritage rearranging itself. The cards stuck together like a bunch…
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"I remember the day Dad introduced me to his secretary but couldn’t remember how old I was or what grade I was in and he laughed but his secretary didn’t" So much pain, and I understand completely @tracieadams.bsky.social
The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 2mo ago"[...] then I’m home slamming the front door, mom’s face a confused blur when I stomp upstairs yelling Dad forgot me, wiping tears as I crouch in the corner of my dark closet where I stash the cookies [...]" Don't miss Tracie Adams' (@tracieadams.bsky.social) wonderful micro in The Bulb Region. 🔗👇
"What do any of them know about a marriage that lasted longer than they’ve been alive? About how a husband is a bear, and a bear is love wrapped in fur and paws and muscle memory." What a beautiful story @tracieadams.bsky.social
The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 2mo agoBefore tomorrow's new edition on the website, make sure to give a read to our recent contributor Tracie Adams' (@tracieadams.bsky.social) absolutely gorgeous story, "The Bear Who Loved Me," published earlier this year at @doricliterary.bsky.social. 🔗👇
"I crouch in the corner of my dark closet where I stash the cookies, the chips, the horde I gulp in whole bites I don’t taste, just stuffing and swallowing" Visceral writing from @tracieadams.bsky.social; the power of this breathless sentence
The Bulb Region@bulbregion.bsky.social · 2mo ago"[...] then I’m home slamming the front door, mom’s face a confused blur when I stomp upstairs yelling Dad forgot me, wiping tears as I crouch in the corner of my dark closet where I stash the cookies [...]" Don't miss Tracie Adams' (@tracieadams.bsky.social) wonderful micro in The Bulb Region. 🔗👇
Before tomorrow's new edition on the website, make sure to give a read to our recent contributor Tracie Adams' (@tracieadams.bsky.social) absolutely gorgeous story, "The Bear Who Loved Me," published earlier this year at @doricliterary.bsky.social. 🔗👇
This is a brave and wonderful piece of writing.
Tracie Adams@tracieadams.bsky.social · 2mo agoThese 200 words took 20 years to write—they tell the story of my daddy issues, childhood loneliness, an eating disorder born in a closet. Thanks to @bulbregion.bsky.social for giving my tender memories a home. And thanks to my awesome editor-mentor-friend @mattkendrick.bsky.social for his help!
