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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨

@ashdoeswords.bsky.social
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She reads. She writes. She aspires to dismantle the patriarchy. 🖋️📚✨ Words in HAD💀, NFFR, Bath Flash, YIV, JAKE, After Happy Hour, FlashFlood, No Sleep, 100-Foot Crow, Neon & Smoke. Wigleaf Top 50 & Best Small Fictions longlisted 🕸️: ashleighadamswrites.com

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New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed) @nffr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congrats to @ashdoeswords.bsky.social for making the @Wigleaf Top 50 LL for Issue 38's "Thursdays smell like you" newflashfiction.com/thursdays-sm...
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Thursdays Smell Like You by Ashleigh Adams | Issue #38
They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.
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Quill Hollow @quillhollow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Cupid's looking out for you... mostly. Read @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's latest story in Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social:
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Teeehehehe...been MIA from here awhile, and honestly a little thrilled to make my grand Bluesky return with this absolutely ridiculous little Drabble 🤣🫣 Thanks @ratbaglit.bsky.social for appreciating this wackadoodle lil rant I kind of adore. 💕
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
ADORE this one! The absolute epitome of a feel-good romcom meetcute - heart & humor
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Don’t mind me screenshotting this and **accidentally** attaching it to any future submissions. 🤣 I kid, I kid. Can’t wait to read all your final picks, last year’s were just stellar! Sending all the strength for your eyeballs during this final push haha 💕
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I totally agree! My “close but no cigar” was so kind and thoughtful, it really gave me the warm fuzzies. 🥰 I’m gonna find a home for that little guy somewhere!
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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 28/11/2025
Congratulations to this year's @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees! Check us out online to read all of this year's award nominations. Ryan Griffith @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social L.F. Khouri Mathieu Parsy @ashdoeswords.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Best Microfiction nominees: The Abbreviated Kafka by Ryan Griffith; Ash Wednesday by Sarp Sozdinler; The Lemon Trees Don't Care You're Sexy (But I Do) by L.F. Khouri; Your Body is a Wolf by Mathieu Parsy; The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died by Ashleigh Adams
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This issue is brimming with talent and killer vibes. Perfectly curated.🎃 I am big lucky to have one of my fave pieces in this issue. 💕The folks at Sky Island saw this one of mine that had been longlisted, shortlisted and ultimately unloved by almost everyone else, and decided to love it anyway. 🎉
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This issue is brimming with talent and killer vibes. Perfectly curated.🎃 I am big lucky to have one of my fave pieces in this issue. 💕The folks at Sky Island saw this one of mine that had been longlisted, shortlisted and ultimately unloved by almost everyone else, and decided to love it anyway. 🎉
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
There is not one single piece from @sarlynh.bsky.social I don’t love. But this one…I’ve been trying for fifteen minutes to find a passage that fits word count and have come up short. I’ll just say: Pier 1, Victorian mansions, confused about babies. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
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sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"Eight squirts of popcorn butter bled through thin paper bags" Love this perfect coming-of-age story by my talented friend @ashdoeswords.bsky.social! Dripping with nostalgia bleeding through thin paper bags <3
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Ahhhhhhhh I love this piece so incredibly much, thank you the wonderful folks at @yourimpossiblevoice.com I am forever grateful to y’all for giving this one a good home 💕💕💕
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Oh hey, I’m in here! 🤗🎉 along with a whole bunch of other AMAZING writers. Do yourself a solid and check these out - your eyeballs and your soul will thank you.
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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
My steampunk adventure featuring a plucky young pilot is now available to read at Intrepidus Ink! intrepidusink.com/a-place-in-t...
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A Place in the Skies
A brilliant flier and mechanic never takes no for an answer in her fight for an academy spot--and glory--in this tale of the skies.
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The past few weeks have been—well, y’all know how it’s been. It’s felt like trudging through rotten egg toxic sludge. BUT we’re coming out the other side, people! And I have THREE (!!!) pubs coming in October I’m absolutely stoked about. Here to finding sparkles and joy on crisp fall mornings. 🍂✨☕️
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Another incredible piece with absolutely STUNNING writting by the one and only @jaimegill.bsky.social Jaime has such a way of crafting gorgeous prose that also feels innately relatable, no matter the subject. His pieces just stick with you. 💕
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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A wonderful writer, a wonderful story, a wonderful publication. Danger: your heart might be at risk on reading this. Do it anyway. And happy tenth birthday @nffr.bsky.social !
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“like the lavender laundry detergent steeped in the threads of the blanket I used when I crashed on your couch” OOF @ashdoeswords.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Reading is resistance. 🫡💪
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I’m sorry, how old?! I reject this.
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Thank you James! 💕✨🎉 so sweet of you to share!
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Ahhhh! I’m all warm and fuzzy. 🥰 Thanks so much for the share, Matt!
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
And thank YOUUU for helping with my audio! It turned out so good! 💕💕💕
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Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Do you want to have your heart broken? No? Then, don't read this story. If you're even a little bit masochistic, go read @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's story in @nffr.bsky.social this month 💔
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Ben Daggers @bendaggerswrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Another talented friend sharing her words in one of the best places around!
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Eleanor Lennox @eleanorlennox.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"Because Thursdays were ours"😭😭 All the feels and some gorgeous sensory details in this flash stunner from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social
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Indigo Boo! @indigorue.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
If you feel like starting your month with a good cry, here are some beautiful words from the talented @ashdoeswords.bsky.social
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds" Love how this piece from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social focuses on one sense to tell a story in such a creative way: newflashfiction.com/thursdays-sm...
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Thursdays Smell Like You by Ashleigh Adams | Issue #38
They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.
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James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
‘…because we were just friends, good friends who made out sometimes on Thursdays after happy hour when I was too buzzed to drive.’ Gorgeous details in this new flash from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social 🥃 newflashfiction.com/thursdays-sm...
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Thursdays Smell Like You by Ashleigh Adams | Issue #38
They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Hey, it’s me! ✨🤩🎉💕 so proud to be a part of this issue alongside so many other INCREDIBLE writers.
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Absolutely SQUEALING with joy to have a piece up in NFFR today! This whole issue is just incredible - congrats on 10 years @nffr.bsky.social 🍾🥂 newflashfiction.com/thursdays-sm...
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Thursdays Smell Like You by Ashleigh Adams | Issue #38
They smell like orange peel and oaky bourbon, same as your breath after three Old Fashioneds.
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Y’all I’m on a full ass tear today. Get ready because this one from @eleanorlennox.bsky.social is giving all the things. “They were so exquisitely calibrated, they could detect when a houseguest was secretly disappointed there was no skimmed milk.” 🥛 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
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The Color of Things
At noon, they ate fried river fish out of banana leaves with their fingers. The guide ate with them. Laura had forgotten his name but could not bear to ask it now. Craig called for salt, and Laura …
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Next up, an insanely immersive moment in time. If yall aren’t reading everything @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social has ever written literally what are you even doing. “…her Spanish verbs missing shoelaces, his English nouns wearing mismatched socks.” My god. www.frazzledlit.com/p/invisible-...
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Invisible Measures
By Mizuki Yamagen (Highly Commended)
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Catching up on reading today and whoooo buddy we’ve got some good ones. First, a killer piece by the always incredible @mmschreier.bsky.social I’ve said it before-as a Not SciFi Girlie(tm) MM consistently manages to remind me why I’m wrong. Every. Time. www.justkeepupmagazine.com/they-her-us-...
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They, Her, Us by MM Schreier — Just Keep Up Magazine
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Listen, if you choose to hammer at 2am you also choose the consequences 🤷‍♀️ I don’t make the rules. 🤣 I say go get ‘em.
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Sending thoughts and prayers for this poor person who will be dealt well-deserved wrath. 💕
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Love this one. Autumn doesn’t miss. www.chicagowrites.org/write_city/1...
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Cold Snap
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Adore you, feeling these hugs real time. I needed them! 💕💕
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This past week damn near took me out. A tsunami of anxiety, bonkers twists and turns at work, and a week of tough fiction Rs. Then I woke up this morning to a proof for a story I'm SO excited about, in a mag I absolutely ADORE and may I just say, thank you universe. I needed that. All is well. 🙌✨💕
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
How little is a little while? Y’all moved FAST but now every day is gonna feel like a lifetime haha 🤣🫠
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I somehow missed that the absolute queen of sensory sad girl litfic shouted out my lil FlashFlood piece about a month ago…I bow to you, Madame. 🙇‍♀️🎉
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Archive challenge day 4 - I don’t know what it means that I keep being drawn to these pieces that are giving “me in my mid-20s” but I’m living for it. newflashfiction.com/maggie-su/ @nffr.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
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We Might Be in New York Already by Maggie Su
We are making mountains out of molehills again, we tell ourselves the morning after. But the night before, in the alleyway behind the gay bar beneath a KFC, we breathe in air like it might slip, sands...
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Alas, they do not. 🤣🫠
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Archive challenge day 3! The magic of this little delight is how grounded and relatable it is despite the absolutely absurd premise. I am also a sucker for unexpected grief pieces. This is firing on all cylinders for moi. newflashfiction.com/tiff-holland... @nffr.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
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Wrapping Kevin by Tiff Holland
It was his last wish, to be a mummy.
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Day 2 of the archive challenge. Adore this pointed little piece, framed in a fairytale retelling, that proves the Man vs. Bear argument has *always* been a thing. newflashfiction.com/evelyn-n-alf... @nffr.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social
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Not all Wolves by Evelyn N. Alfred
What they never tell you about Lil Red Riding Hood is that the wolves were everywhere.
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Kicking off the archive challenge from @smokelong.bsky.social with this gorgeous little sensory piece that reminds me of a time where I could still take shots in grungy bars at 1am without needing three business days to recover. Ah, memories. @nffr.bsky.social newflashfiction.com/roaring-twen...
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Roaring Twenties by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
She remembers the vodka-clear starts of nights. Leggings, suede jackets and crimping hair, her sister separating strands.
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Spotted a writer buddy in the wild! Love this one from the always-talented @scmillsbooks.bsky.social 💧
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Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I need a good, fast-paced psych thriller req and I feel like I’ve read them all. Preferably not detective-based (but I will budge on that in a pinch). Preferably solid prose-wise. Stuff like Alice Feeney, Lucinda Berry, Peter Swanson, Ashley Audrain, Shari Lapena. Drop ‘em if you got ‘em 📚 ⤵️
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