Marsha Adams on Medium curated some lists

Marsha Adams

Marsha Adams

Medium-well parody

63 stories

A sticker on a rusted metal background. The background of the sticker is black. The sticker shows a simple illustration of a small blue robot toy, the letters ‘AI’ in a pink square at the top and bottom, and the words, “Hello and welcome. Artificial intelligence. I wish I have some real intelligence and empathy like real people do. And funny? Forget about it.”

The reverse face of a US dime. It bears the phrases “United States of America,” “One dime,” and “E pluribus unum.” It also shows two branches and a torch, arranged vertically. The stems of the branches, and the handle of the torch, pass through the phrase “E pluribus unum,” making it appear as “Eplu rib usu num.”

Marsha Adams

Miscellaneous longer reads (5+ minutes)

45 stories

A young woman, in her late twenties or early thirties. She has chin-length black hair, and is wearing a grey halter top. She looks contemplative, and perhaps guilty.

Two young women wearing one-piece swimsuits, and a young man with long, curly hair, sitting together on a beach. They are eating ice pops. The woman on the right is sucking hard on her ice pop while looking at the man. The second woman is licking her ice pop while looking at the first woman. The man is sucking his ice pop while looking into the middle distance.

Marsha Adams

Wicked Wednesday

29 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

Sidhe Sisters

8 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

Truth

24 stories

A girl, perhaps five years old, with blonde, curly hair and wearing a blue dress, is walking down a street. She is holding the hand of a woman in a blue dress.

Marc Almond on a festival stage

Stencilled road markings, presumably unofficial, on tarmac: a yellow smiley face above white lettering which reads, “STAY SAFE.”

Marsha Adams

Shift Work is Real Work

14 stories

A young woman walking into an apartment. She has dark hair, and is wearing a black blouse, a black leather jacket, a black and white plaid miniskirt, and black tights. She has a black handbag slung over one shoulder. She looks tired and slightly dishevelled.

An attractive young woman with dark, shoulder-length hair, applying mascara in front of a mirror.

An attractive young woman, looking slightly uncertain.

Marsha Adams

Fake Films

2 stories

A film poster, showing a man in a long red coat walking down the middle of a wet London street. The pavements are busy with drab pedestrians, but the road is empty of traffic. The names ‘Hilary Stark’ and ‘Kim Qi’ are above the title, “28 Days Earlier”. The tagline, below the title, is “Before the Rage… the Routine.” The word “Exceptional” appears as a quote from Variety.

A movie poster. A conclave of cardinals in scarlet surrounds a pope in white. The photo is in ‘tilt-shift’ format, so the figures look like tiny scale models. Large text suggests the film’s title is ‘Corthall’, while smaller text reads ‘virilen sa Amaneth Indukar’.

Marsha Adams

Tiny stories (under 5 minutes)

39 stories

Two women in their seventies sitting at a table outside a cafe. They are not looking at each other.

A tow-headed boy, perhaps eight years old, wearing pants but no shirt, is leaning over the blue railings of his garden wall. Small magenta flowers grow in profusion in his garden, and spill out through the railings. The garden is higher than the sidewalk it borders, so he is looking down on a girl of similar age wearing a blue floral dress with her dark-blonde hair in a braid. She is smiling up at him, one hand holding onto the railings and the other lifting a plucked flower to her nose.

A hooded figure, standing in foggy darkness, silhouetted by a red light behind him.

Marsha Adams

Not One Had Wings

12 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

We call it Xmas Eve. Toys call it Hell Night.

3 stories

Belle and Aurora figurines flirting with a Slinky Dog toy.

A Barbie doll wearing a white dress and holding a bouquet. She is standing beside a Ken doll wearing only board shorts.

Marsha Adams

Le Marteau d'Arthur

13 stories

A detail of a suit of armour, showing a short but girthy codpiece.

A young woman in full plate armour but no helmet, lying on the ground with her eyes closed.

A woodcut engraving showing a woman standing beside a lake greeting an armoured man and an older man wearing a long robe. It is captioned, “The lady of the lake telling Arthur of the low sword Sexclubber.”

Marsha Adams

Poetry, allegedly

6 stories

A well-preserved 13th-century castle beside the river Liffey

“Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer”, (Wanderer above the Sea of Fog), an 1818 painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich, which depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer, gazing out on a landscape covered in a sea of fog in which can be seen scattered islands of other ridges and trees.

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

Marsha Adams

Teasers

3 stories

A man wearing a blue suit, holding his phone up as though he is looking at it. The photo is cropped to show only his torso.

A young woman sitting in a doorway in a rundown alley. She has straight, black hair, and red lipstick. She is wearing a black leather jacket, sheer black tights, and black boots.

A packed lecture hall.

Marsha Adams

Short and Weird

31 stories

A detailed pen and ink drawing of a woman with three legs sitting in something vaguely resembling a kitchen.

A tabby cat sitting on a lawn, next to a small flag depicting a cartoon cat wearing a space suit.

A young, bearded man in a bath of milk. Only his face and part of one arm are visible above the milk. He has his eyes closed.

Marsha Adams

AI

3 stories

A close-up of a pair of metal, mounted binoculars, which superficially resembles a robot’s face.

A mountainous metallic dragon statue, holding a small city between its front paws.

Marsha Adams

Cities of Sin

10 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

His Dick Materials

3 stories

A young woman wearing glasses, lying on a bed, looking at her phone with a shocked expression.

A middle-aged woman and an elderly woman, both smartly dressed, sitting on a park bench. The older woman is showing great interest in the phone held by the younger.

Three young, diverse people looking at the screen of the smartphone held by one of them.

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

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