Marsha Adams on Medium curated some lists

Marsha Adams

Short and Weird

23 stories

An extremely shallow tortoise.

Looking out through the filthy window of a garden shed, a woman can be seen, her face pressed against the glass. She is wearing a white dress and veil. Her arms are raised in a way which suggests her wrists — unseen — may be tied to each other and to the shed.

Marsha Adams

Not One Had Wings

7 stories

Two mosaic walls meeting at the corner of a city street. Both are pale blue with yellow lettering. One reads, “Do what you love,” and the other, “Love what you do.”

An 1822 aquatint print illustrating the west entrance to the recently built Regent’s Canal tunnel at Islington, north London. Two horse-drawn narrowboats can be seen on the canal, one about to enter and one leaving. The surrounding area is mainly fields, although a few large buildings can be seen.

Marsha Adams

Tiny stories (under 5 minutes)

30 stories

A close-up of a woman’s face. Her hair is tousled, her eyes are closed, and her lips are slightly parted. Her expression implies something sexually arousing is happening off camera.

Five images, in a horizontal line, of different phases of the moon, from full to waxing gibbous, to first quarter, to crescent, to a sliver before new.

A young woman in an art gallery, admiring nineteenth century paintings. She has blonde hair worn up in a fishtail French braid, and she is wearing black ankle boots, grey leggings, and a blue denim jacket which is a little too large for her, so the sleeves cover her hands.

Marsha Adams

Truth

18 stories

Marsha Adams

Poetry, allegedly

4 stories

A woman’s hand holding a white mug on which the words “I can’t even” are written in black capitals.

A red neon sign on a red brick internal wall. The sign read, “You are what you listen to,” with a musical note interposed between ‘are’ and ‘what’.

A red calla lily, which, according to LA Weekly, bears “such a striking resemblance to the human vagina that it is rumored to have been offered the principal role in Basic Instinct 3.”

Marsha Adams

Miscellaneous longer reads (5+ minutes)

39 stories

A side view of a young woman with long, blonde hair sitting on a ledge in front of a large window. She is wearing a white t-shirt, but her tanned legs are bare. She is sitting with her bare feet on the seat, and her knees up. The bottom of her t-shirt is gathered on her hips, revealing enough skin to suggest she may be wearing nothing under the t-shirt. Her head is turned away from the camera to look out of the window. The view through the window is of palm trees in heavy rain: hot, and wet.

A woman sitting in front of a desk. She is backlit by two bright monitors.

A jumble of ‘fridge poetry’ magnetic words, including sorrow, torn, wings, explore, belief, and you.

Marsha Adams

Sidhe Sisters

6 stories

A young girl, perhaps nine years old, sitting against the trunk of a large tree. She has holes in the knees of her jeans, and an upturned wooden bucket on her head, the handle of which hangs like a strap under her chin.

A young girl, perhaps nine years old, with intense, watchful eyes, sitting on grass beside a conifer. She has holes in the knees of her jeans.

A pre-teen girl with dark hair and piercing green eyes sitting in the snow beside a fir tree. She is wearing black leggings and a white turtleneck sweater.

Marsha Adams

XXXmas

7 stories

A naked woman, lying on her side, curled in a fetal position, in the centre of an occult symbol ringed with candles and tarot cards.

An elegant woman in a short, red dress is sitting in a plaid easy chair beside a stylishly decorated Christmas tree. She is unwrapping a small, boxed gift with an open-mouthed expression of joyful surprise.

Marsha Adams

Twisted Tropes

6 stories

A monochrome portrait of a stereotypical dark romance male antagonist: a handsome, strong-jawed, well-muscled, designer-stubbled man, wearing a half-buttoned white shirt and staring sternly at a point just to the side of the camera.

Two beautiful blonde women sitting in the front of a fifties vintage car. The woman driving is wearing a pink sundress. Her passenger has a pink bow in her hair.

Marsha Adams

(Not) Military History

4 stories

A woman in a long, white dress, apparently floating in mid-air in front of a huge pile of logs.

Two standard lamps made out of human skeletons with light bulbs covered by red lampshades in place of their skulls. In the background are a multitude of large strip lights, both straight and arched.

A group of Barbie dolls standing behind a fence. The dolls are painted and dressed to resemble zombies, with bloody hands and mouths.

Marsha Adams

Cities of Sin

9 stories

A young woman wearing a bandeau-top bikini and sunglasses, lying on a pool chair, and sipping a fruit-laden drink through a red straw.

A skinny, blonde girl in her early teens, wearing a dark green tank top and denim cut-offs, leans against a white brick wall. She has the fingers of both hands tucked into the front pockets of her shorts. A red mist obscures much of the scene but her face is clearly visible. She is looking at the camera with an expression somewhere between contempt and wary scepticism.

Marsha Adams

Twisted sisters

9 stories

A rear view of two woman sitting on a bench. They each have an arm around the other’s waist. They are both wearing black t-shirts with the word ‘sisterhood’ on the back.

A rear view of a man and a woman sitting on a bench. The man has his arm around the woman’s shoulders, and she has her head resting on his shoulder.

Rear view of a man and a woman sitting on a park bench. The man has his arm around the woman’s shoulders. She is leaning in, either whispering in his ear, kissing him, or simply being close.

Marsha Adams

Twisted Fairy Tales

12 stories

A young woman wearing jeans and a bikini top is pulling the waistband of her jeans out, astonished to find a several feet long, thick, flowering plant tendril growing from within.

A close-up of a cute, tiny, hairy spider with glossy, black eyes.

A pen and ink drawing of an African woman with a basket, kneeling on the shoreline. A demonic head, with horns, eyes large as saucers, and terrible sharp fangs, is rising from the waves.

Marsha Adams

True Colours

4 stories

A head and shoulders view of a beautiful Black woman, lying in bed. There is nothing covering her, and she appears to be naked, but she has her arms folded over her breasts. She is looking to her left, to the camera or whoever is lying next to her.

A young black woman with brown, curly hair, wearing a red off-the-shoulder dress. She is looking over her shoulder at the camera.

A beautiful Black woman with curly, brown hair, standing in front of a small lake. She is wearing a pink tank top. She is resting her forearm on the pink-jacketed shoulder of a blonde, white woman standing beside her.

Marsha Adams

Friendship is Free

3 stories

A young woman sitting on a bus, holding a book.

A young, attractive woman with curly brown hair smiling broadly as she looks at her phone.

A young woman with tightly curled brown hair looks at herself in a large bathroom mirror.

Marsha Adams

Tori Tales

27 stories

An attractive woman sitting in a comfortable chair, with her arms crossed in a guarded posture.

A woman wearing only a bathrobe which is open almost far enough to reveal her nipples.

An attractive woman in skimpy sportswear, straddling a stationary bicycle positioned sideways across a country lane.

Marsha Adams

Politeness Costs Nothing

8 stories

A young woman about to board a train.

A young woman on a railway station, looking at her iPad.

Marsha Adams

Wicked Wednesday

30 stories

An elegant, professional, mature woman makes notes, while sitting across from a slightly younger man and woman who have some distance between them.

A young woman sits on a wooden floor in front of a sofa. She’s wearing white socks, black shorts and a green sweater over a white t-shirt. She has a laptop on her lap. She is talking to someone on her phone.

Marsha Adams

Teasers

1 story

A packed lecture hall.

Marsha Adams

Competitions

8 stories

A girl sitting in a city square, playing with a dog

A young woman barista.

Silhouettes of five naked women

Marsha Adams

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