Thanks to Flash the Court for giving this story a place to land and the perfect artwork.
“A Boy Wants His Mother” ⬇️
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Tracie Adams
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Books: Our Lives in Pieces (2025) and Not Finished Yet (2026) Words in Stanchion, Pithead Chapel, Cleaver, Fictive Dream, BULL, Hippocampus 2X Pushcart nominee, BOTN, Best Microfiction and LL Wigleaf Top 50 Retired educator and playwright
@thorntonforreal.bsky.socialReposted by @tracieadams.bsky.social@tracieadams.bsky.socialOh Lisa. You wrote something important. 🙏🏼
@tracieadams.bsky.socialThank you, Lori. 💕
@tracieadams.bsky.socialThanks, Beth. 😊
@tracieadams.bsky.socialBig thanks to @emergejournal.bsky.social for including “Oh the Places I’ll Virtually Go” in this stunning fall issue! 🙌🏽💕
@pdforan.bsky.socialReposted by @tracieadams.bsky.social“The song ends. The quiet hurts. I think about that poor sick woman who said she was sorry. Sad Man who wished he could help us but can’t even help hisself.”
@tracieadams.bsky.social in @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/safe-enough....
@tracieadams.bsky.socialPat, thank you for reading and sharing my story! 🫶🏼💕
@pitheadchapel.bsky.socialReposted by @tracieadams.bsky.socialIt’s our October issue!
Art: Cate Petty
Fiction:
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social
Arden Shostak
@jeremymauser.bsky.social
Mathieu Parsy
Nonfiction:
Sharon Goldberg
Melissa Fraterrigo
Leath Tonino
Poetry:
@leeh70.bsky.social
Cal Freeman
@cowboyjamboree.bsky.socialReposted by @tracieadams.bsky.socialThe old Buick LeSabre ticks and cools around us. Everything we own is packed inside it—three black trash bags full of clothes, a blanket that smells like home, and a cardboard box Mama won't let me touch.
Dig "Safe Enough" by @tracieadams.bsky.social: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/safe-enough....
@lmbayley.bsky.socialReposted by @tracieadams.bsky.social"Mama’s eyes are empty. I remember one time after Daddy’d been gone for months, I asked if she was lonely. She said nah, more like sad. She said sad was when you miss yourself and she’d been sad long before she ever met Daddy."
@tracieadams.bsky.socialThanks for reading and sharing, Linda. 💕
@tracieadams.bsky.socialMy review of @jdclappwrites.bsky.social “Grit Before Grace” from who else but my favorite small press putting out the best grit lit @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
@tracieadams.bsky.socialMy review of @thedrevlow.bsky.social “The Captain’s Been Drinking” from
@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
@tracieadams.bsky.socialOh wow, Linda, such an honor to know I haunted you! 😁 Thank you for this! 🙏🏼❤️
@pitheadchapel.bsky.socialReposted by @tracieadams.bsky.socialCongratulations and best of luck to our Best of the Net nominees!
@tracieadams.bsky.socialGotcha. I’ll order the print when I can. I put the launch on my calendar too. 🙌🏽
@danbillyc.bsky.socialReposted by @tracieadams.bsky.social"I shove the earbuds in and Blaze Foley’s 'If I Could Only Fly' almost helps me forget my trash bag-cardboard-box-life...."
Big love for this amazing piece (the voice!) by @tracieadams.bsky.social in @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social 💙💙💙
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/safe-enough....
@tracieadams.bsky.socialThank you, Dan. ❤️
@chestnutreview.bsky.socialReposted by @tracieadams.bsky.socialWe’re thrilled to welcome Stitch by Allison Field Bell, a collection of flash fiction into the world.
@claudiamonpere.bsky.socialReposted by @tracieadams.bsky.socialAbsolutely thrilled that my debut book, a flash fiction collection, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social is out Oct. 13. Kindle preorders now on Amazon. Printed text available 10/13. Remote launch SAT 11/14, 10:00 am PT. Details soon. Heartfelt thanks @vanwinkle.bsky.social.
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