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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you!

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 15h

Big thanks to The Shallot for including my quirky CNF in this print issue.

#mentalhealthawareness

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 15h

Even in the darkest places, light is shining through the cracks. Beauty is everywhere all the time.

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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 23h

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, do take a moment to rest and read this powerful (and very appropriate for today) non-fiction by @tracieadams.bsky.social.
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#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 17h

“But the notes said look deeper, reminding me that the heart is deceptively wicked above all things, pitifully fragile and shallow.”

Love this powerful and heartfelt piece. A reminder how small things can bring big shifts. @tracieadams.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 23h

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, do take a moment to rest and read this powerful (and very appropriate for today) non-fiction by @tracieadams.bsky.social.
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#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

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The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social · 4d

Tracie Adams is the #author of 'Our Lives in Pieces: A Collection of Flash Memoir Essays' #memoir #essays

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#amreading @tracieadams.bsky.social #goodreads #iartg #ian1

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you! 😊

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you, Jenny.❤️

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 8d

There is beauty in everything. Even brokenness. 💔

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 9d

@paddlerpress.bsky.social has done something special with the Faith Issue! It’s so gorgeous and inspiring. I’m thrilled to be included alongside these amazing writers/poets.

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 9d

I love journals like Thorn and Bloom who provide space for mental health and self care. My CNF “When the Walls Come Down” is included in the gorgeous Issue 3 print edition.

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 17d

This is beautiful.

Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 6: Nostalgia now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 18d

More #poetry from Issue 6: #Nostalgia -

“The Senses I Recall” by Lily Vaughan

“and the inside of a book smells
like the sun
when peanut butter sandwiches sound
like my sister’s voice”

A beautiful collection of sense memories and how they come together

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the senses i recall -

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 21d

Gotta hate when “the shit shoveler calls in sick.” 😆 This is a circus of words👏🏼🫶🏼👇🏼

Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 22d

"The python flicks its tongue, unhinges its jaw, keen to swallow the charmer, who darts away with a phew!" Love this joyful, lyrical collaboration b/w Kathryn Silver-Hajo and Mikki Aronoff @fictivedream.bsky.social
fictivedream.com/2025/09/14/e...

Everyone’s Hangry at the Celestial Hurly Burly

by Mikki Aronoff and Kathryn Silver-Hajo — inspired by the painting, Good and Evil, an Abstraction, by Jewad Selim …

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 21d

And to think I almost missed celebrating this. Arrr!!! Thanks, matey.

a puppet dressed as a pirate is standing next to a treasure chest full of gold coins

ALT: a puppet dressed as a pirate is standing next to a treasure chest full of gold coins

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you @underbellypress.bsky.social for being awesome.

Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social · 22d

The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever Died Today by
@tracieadams.bsky.social - Issue 3

This sharp, witty piece follows Jimmy, who grows up determined to elude his father's fate at any cost. It explores the fragility of control & the question of whether we can escape what feels inevitable.

Thursday Throwback
If there was a booster, he was the first in line. If there was a clinical trial for an anti-aging drug, he did not hesitate to sign the forms promising not to sue. He knew the risks. Watching his widowed mother grieve his father’s premature death set a fire in him. He vowed he would never break her heart like that. He would live forever.
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever Died Today
Tracie Adams

Text is on a black background. Image of some pills in the bottom right corner.

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 23d

A bit of Wednesday Wisdom 🤓

Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations, Matt!🙌🏽

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 24d

This month's #Mondettes picked by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social

⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Kathryn made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing

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September 2025

Ten stories picked by Kathryn Silver-Hajo

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you for reading and sharing. You’re awesome. ♥️

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 24d

Back at ya, sister. ☺️

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Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks @thehooletsnook.bsky.social for publishing my 100-word story in this lovely new issue!

And thanks @smokelong.bsky.social workshop for the prompt and group feedback that shaped this micro.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 25d

Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White.
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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 25d

Have fun and make some awesome memories. 💪🏽

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Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social · 25d

😢

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 26d

"She wallpapered the hallways with notes in every
color of the rainbow—you got this, i believe in you, you are stronger than you think." Stunning @tracieadams.bsky.social
I'll never see a sticky note in the same way.
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Sticky Notes for a Downcast Soul by Tracie Adams

It took a while for the encouragement to kick in, to move past the shame of it and accept thewords as the gift they were. And it was shameful, my fifteen-year-old daughter so afraid that her mom would...

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