Marsha Adams on Medium curated some lists

Marsha Adams

Marsha Adams

Miscellaneous longer reads (5+ minutes)

39 stories

A view of Hollywood from above and behind the famous Hollywood sign, which can be seen in shot, reversed.

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.

Marsha Adams

Truth

22 stories

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

A young woman lying on her bed. She’s holding a mug which bears the words “Morning, pumpkin.”

A POV photo of someone sitting with a book on their lap while reading another. The book on their lap is titled, “101 Essays that will Change the way You… [remaining title unclear]”. The book being read is poetry.

Marsha Adams

Short and Weird

28 stories

A monochrome closeup of a woman with her head turned to lick her naked shoulder.

A French bulldog wearing blue pyjamas with a banana motif, sitting beneath a purple banner on which is written, in yellow, “Meet the stars!”

An iguana caught in the act of leaping over the short gap between two sections of wall. His back feet are on one wall and his forelegs are stretched out in front of him, reaching about halfway across the gap.

Marsha Adams

Not One Had Wings

9 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)

31 stories

An androgynous person with long, toned arms, long, blonde hair, and dark glasses, wearing a black vest and trousers, and dark glasses, standing in front of a mural of angel wings.

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.

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

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

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

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

Marsha Adams

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