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Portfolio

Simone Adams is a passionate storyteller with a heart for sharing the human experience from an intimate perspective. Her work often focuses on culture, place, identity, and social justice.

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Enjoy this sampling of work. 

Growing Up Black in Marietta
memoir

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This is a memoir about racism. The story allows for an adult reflection on the racism experienced from a child's perspective and how those experiences shape an individual. 

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[Not for publication at this time]

Atlanta Magazine

Journaling as a Self-Care Practice

Mirror, Mirror

fiction

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This first-person point-of-view is a dramatic short story that exposes the self-doubt of a successful woman who loves her husband but hates her marriage.

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[Currently seeking publication]

Anita Diamant's The Red Tent Fills a Literary Void: Menstruation in Literature
academic research paper

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This critical literary review looks at the absence of menstruation in literature and the significance of this novel among women and post-pubescent girls.

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[Hosted on Academia.edu; available for publication]

Blue Eyes Ain't Enough
flash fiction

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Do you remember Pecola, Freida, and Claudia from Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye? This is the imagined continuation of that story, a chance meeting between the trio we first met as girls after they've all grown up. 

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[Currently seeking publication]

The Forgotten

multimedia

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This is a long-form narrative non-fiction that documents the life of a man experiencing homelessness. The story is not about homelessness, it is an intimate portrait of a man named Luther. 

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[Available for publication]

Life Overtakes Me
film review

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This is a film review for a documentary that aired on Netflix about refugee children in Sweden who suffer from a physiological coma-like condition known as Resignation Syndrome.

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[Hosted on Flickside.com]

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