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[Not for publication at this time]
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]