Marsha Adams
marshaadams.bsky.social
Marsha Adams
@marshaadams.bsky.social
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Autistic author. Books on Kindle Unlimited: https://shorturl.at/vOVW0 Stories on Medium: http://marshmallowscut.medium.com
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Fun fact: there are more #atoms in a glass of water than in the whole Pacific ocean.
Most people instinctively don't believe this, because they think the Pacific is real rather than a mono-molecular hologram built by ancient aliens to lure human sailors to their doom.

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He'd #hover at the bar like a hawk suspended in a cornflower sky, and with the same unwavering focus: prey. But she knew how blind even hawks could be: he'd never spot the bait was poisoned, not if she looked mousy enough.

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There remain many unanswered questions about AI. For example, can an #android get a hemorrhoid if it's training to parse a daily log?

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Some victims would stammer out praise for her #arid lips, or the delicate mesh of her nose, or the seductive angle of her ears. For those, she would open her other eye, that they might see their own pretty fear reflected in its facets.

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People were drawn to her #unearthly beauty, usually by her tentacles. "Am I pretty?" she would ask as she dangled them in front of her eldritch maw; she took their screams as affirmation.

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Never trust scientists: entomologists recognise four hundred thousand different #beetles, but they can't even agree on which one was the fifth.

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"Why are you drunk and not working?"
"We've got no vehicles."
"What happened?"
"Canadian ninjas took the whole fleet."
"So you downed a bottle of forty-year old Scotch because Canucks with nunchucks stole our dump trucks?"
"Yep. Expect an influx of #deluxe upchucks."

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an expensive school
taught a defensive rule:
senses fool;
a voice soaked in honey
smoke and money,
the southern grown
#undertone
of a comfort zone;
his linen suit
hid a sinful brute;
the Mr Clean front
of a libertine

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"Get me a #piranha sandwich and make it… with a soft, brioche to balance out the greasiness of the fried fish without masking the delicate flavour."
"Do you want capers?"
"No, I don't enjoy them."

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The hood of the shapeless #raincoat sagged over her downcast eyes. She saw a few inches of pavement in front of her feet, and that was enough.

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"What's up?"
"I've lost my #verve. The doc gave me some drugs, but they don't seem to be working."
"You should try a Libertine."
"What's that?"
"A new cocktail. Old Monk rum and Minute Maid peach juice."

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"Tangerine, clementine, or #libertine?"
"What's a libertine?"
"A new hybrid. It's a cross between a blood orange and a finger lime."

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white #ash staining the land
the locals call it snow
they take their washing
and their children in

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She wanted to watch a video promising powerful techniques to improve patience, but there was a twenty-second unskippable #advert before it started.

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she’s #elastic
she’s got a horse part made out of plastic
she uses it in ways quite gymnastic
'cos she ain't no nun

she’s got a mister
and God only knows where he's kissed her
but on the palm of his hand is a blister
'cos he don't get none

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#pulp:
cotton stripped
made wet
beaten into sheets
bound
used for shameful stories

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each fleeting moment became
its own contingency, an urgent #oasis
offering opportunities to flourish
and we drank

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the past seen through a glass
darkly masked by a whisky #blur
whatever hope seemed sparse
was only wish deferred

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