Austin Adams
@adamsorardor.bsky.social
Saw God. Learned nothing. Wrote a novel about it.
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Austin Adams
@adamsorardor.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Confederacy — Austin Adams
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, that grand ol’ folktale alleging life under Lee to have been a convocation of gentleman lording over their lessers who were grateful to have been restored to thei…
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An excerpt from my novel, You Want to Call This Life a Parable, which concerns real rumors of my grandmother's complicity in the murder of my grandfather, & explores whether anything so quixotic as the truth can be excavated from what the world tries to forget.
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"Tabs" by Austin Adams is about now, like right now. He pins it in the way he pins lost causes and end of days elsewhere. The thread through all of it is work that somehow seems to know exactly what it's doing at any given moment, with all the tricks of fiction, words, flow, and shape.
"Everyone looks so strange nowadays, or else they don’t, which is its own decision. One of them had had a kid, and it grew or it died. Something significant had happened, which we don’t say about the ferocious enigma of time’s simple passing."
New story up today.
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New story up today.
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Tabs | Issue 32
By Austin Adams — "The revealed and ultimate truth began, as all things do, on the internet.James, who’s changing his name to Rick, read that neuroscientists at Cal-Tech— 'Western,' Pam corrects."
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May 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Tabs" by Austin Adams is about now, like right now. He pins it in the way he pins lost causes and end of days elsewhere. The thread through all of it is work that somehow seems to know exactly what it's doing at any given moment, with all the tricks of fiction, words, flow, and shape.
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Our Spring 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring incredible works of eco-writing and translation by emerging and established writers. Read now at the link in our bio!
May 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Our Spring 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring incredible works of eco-writing and translation by emerging and established writers. Read now at the link in our bio!
“I read the news. Everyone does, one way or another, if you’re generous enough with those words. I knew once, something true. But it was a song, and it wasn’t catchy. Who can remember now how it goes?”
"Everyone looks so strange nowadays, or else they don’t, which is its own decision. One of them had had a kid, and it grew or it died. Something significant had happened, which we don’t say about the ferocious enigma of time’s simple passing."
New story up today.
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New story up today.
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Tabs | Issue 32
By Austin Adams — "The revealed and ultimate truth began, as all things do, on the internet.James, who’s changing his name to Rick, read that neuroscientists at Cal-Tech— 'Western,' Pam corrects."
yourimpossiblevoice.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“I read the news. Everyone does, one way or another, if you’re generous enough with those words. I knew once, something true. But it was a song, and it wasn’t catchy. Who can remember now how it goes?”
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"Everyone looks so strange nowadays, or else they don’t, which is its own decision. One of them had had a kid, and it grew or it died. Something significant had happened, which we don’t say about the ferocious enigma of time’s simple passing."
New story up today.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/
New story up today.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/
Tabs | Issue 32
By Austin Adams — "The revealed and ultimate truth began, as all things do, on the internet.James, who’s changing his name to Rick, read that neuroscientists at Cal-Tech— 'Western,' Pam corrects."
yourimpossiblevoice.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Everyone looks so strange nowadays, or else they don’t, which is its own decision. One of them had had a kid, and it grew or it died. Something significant had happened, which we don’t say about the ferocious enigma of time’s simple passing."
New story up today.
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New story up today.
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Be sure to check out this issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com , which has pieces by two Dodge contributors and is guest edited by a third! @adamsorardor.bsky.social @ianmacclayn.bsky.social @alvinlu.bsky.social
It's here. Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, @molarawood.bsky.social, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, @ianmacclayn.bsky.social, Karen An-hwei Lee, @adamsorardor.bsky.social, @ericracher.bsky.social, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan...
Your Impossible Voice #32 | Spring 2025
Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, Molara Wood, Khalil AbuSharekh, Ian MacClayn, Karen An-hwei Lee, Austin Adams, Eric T. Racher, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan, Steve Barba...
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May 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Be sure to check out this issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com , which has pieces by two Dodge contributors and is guest edited by a third! @adamsorardor.bsky.social @ianmacclayn.bsky.social @alvinlu.bsky.social
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I have a new story in this issue about attention, distraction, how rattled our thoughts are and how alienated we feel from the people around us. It's funny, I swear.
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May 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I have a new story in this issue about attention, distraction, how rattled our thoughts are and how alienated we feel from the people around us. It's funny, I swear.
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My friends say I’m totally / intellectually promiscuous which is the footnote to being / so empty that intellectual masturbation begins / to fail regularly.
GLENN GOULD'S FAVORITE COLOR WAS 'BATTLESHIP GREY' by @alinaetc.bsky.social
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GLENN GOULD'S FAVORITE COLOR WAS 'BATTLESHIP GREY' by @alinaetc.bsky.social
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May 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My friends say I’m totally / intellectually promiscuous which is the footnote to being / so empty that intellectual masturbation begins / to fail regularly.
GLENN GOULD'S FAVORITE COLOR WAS 'BATTLESHIP GREY' by @alinaetc.bsky.social
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GLENN GOULD'S FAVORITE COLOR WAS 'BATTLESHIP GREY' by @alinaetc.bsky.social
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I have a new story in this issue about attention, distraction, how rattled our thoughts are and how alienated we feel from the people around us. It's funny, I swear.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/
May 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I have a new story in this issue about attention, distraction, how rattled our thoughts are and how alienated we feel from the people around us. It's funny, I swear.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/
"Everyone looks so strange nowadays, or else they don’t, which is its own decision. One of them had had a kid, and it grew or it died. Something significant had happened, which we don’t say about the ferocious enigma of time’s simple passing."
New story up today.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/
New story up today.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/
Tabs | Issue 32
By Austin Adams — "The revealed and ultimate truth began, as all things do, on the internet.James, who’s changing his name to Rick, read that neuroscientists at Cal-Tech— 'Western,' Pam corrects."
yourimpossiblevoice.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Everyone looks so strange nowadays, or else they don’t, which is its own decision. One of them had had a kid, and it grew or it died. Something significant had happened, which we don’t say about the ferocious enigma of time’s simple passing."
New story up today.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/
New story up today.
yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/
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It's here. Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, @molarawood.bsky.social, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, @ianmacclayn.bsky.social, Karen An-hwei Lee, @adamsorardor.bsky.social, @ericracher.bsky.social, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan...
Your Impossible Voice #32 | Spring 2025
Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, Molara Wood, Khalil AbuSharekh, Ian MacClayn, Karen An-hwei Lee, Austin Adams, Eric T. Racher, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan, Steve Barba...
yourimpossiblevoice.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It's here. Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, @molarawood.bsky.social, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, @ianmacclayn.bsky.social, Karen An-hwei Lee, @adamsorardor.bsky.social, @ericracher.bsky.social, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan...
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wrote about a genre of essay i really hate: the rich people who weaponize political fear to sell you a dream of european emigration no one but them can afford www.late-review.com/p/against-th...
against the fleeing to europe industrial complex
a brief polemic
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May 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
wrote about a genre of essay i really hate: the rich people who weaponize political fear to sell you a dream of european emigration no one but them can afford www.late-review.com/p/against-th...
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Let's close ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with another great book ✨Contributor @alinaetc.bsky.social book MY HERESIES was published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social ! Find this poetry collection of the sacred and the familial here: buff.ly/zXPhjG6
May 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Let's close ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with another great book ✨Contributor @alinaetc.bsky.social book MY HERESIES was published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social ! Find this poetry collection of the sacred and the familial here: buff.ly/zXPhjG6
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Rainy Friday night, closing the bookstore by myself, listening to a forgotten slowcore band for whom I might be the top listener on earth. This is what it’s all about
May 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Rainy Friday night, closing the bookstore by myself, listening to a forgotten slowcore band for whom I might be the top listener on earth. This is what it’s all about
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...and reaching down into the water, he will eventually find, among the other crude elements, a seam hidden from his companions, and pulling on that, he will unravel the earth itself.
"Despite the weakness of the light, the path ahead was still visible to everyone. Then Brother Kelpius answered [...] that if he could not find his way among lesser lights, then he would never find his way at all ..."
— @unpaginated.bsky.social
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— @unpaginated.bsky.social
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Back Alley of the Universe: The Men of the Society of Women in the Wilderness — Matthew Spencer
Ancient Capital (1694-1695) Spring had come to the Wissahickon and Brother Kelpius was walking high along its banks when he chanced upon another hermit, an Englishman—their kind becoming common in …
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May 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
...and reaching down into the water, he will eventually find, among the other crude elements, a seam hidden from his companions, and pulling on that, he will unravel the earth itself.
Harold Bloom: this exquisite tiramisu owes a rather obvious debt to Shakespeare
May 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Harold Bloom: this exquisite tiramisu owes a rather obvious debt to Shakespeare
You know who always believed in your dreams? Freud.
May 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
You know who always believed in your dreams? Freud.
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Alina Stefanescu: "Daydreamers (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social) promises another journey with Alvin Lu, who has an extraordinary capacity to build worlds that unseat order and genre simultaneously. I look forward to being unseated, blurred, and bewildered by this one."
Oh, wow. Thank you, Alina!
May 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Alina Stefanescu: "Daydreamers (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social) promises another journey with Alvin Lu, who has an extraordinary capacity to build worlds that unseat order and genre simultaneously. I look forward to being unseated, blurred, and bewildered by this one."
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Still my favorite thing I’ve written, so I guess why the hell not share it again
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Old World, New World — Addison Zeller
“…it matters not if you elude my arms, my heart, when my thought alone can imprison you.” — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (tr. Edith Grossman) I. Teotihuacan An empty grid with stone jaguars. Use…
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May 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Still my favorite thing I’ve written, so I guess why the hell not share it again
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minorliteratures.com/2024/06/20/o...
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Congratulations to the incomparable Stacey Levine, whose novel Mice 1961 was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize! We were fortunate enough to publish an excerpt back in issue 27. Pick yourself up a copy today! bit.ly/4jMhUmI
Excerpt from Mice 1961 by Stacey Levine
Sherrie Gagel pushed through the throng toward the head branch librarian, declaring with a patchy pant: “May I ask you something Miss Stroke? I’ve wanted to for ages.”
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May 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Congratulations to the incomparable Stacey Levine, whose novel Mice 1961 was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize! We were fortunate enough to publish an excerpt back in issue 27. Pick yourself up a copy today! bit.ly/4jMhUmI
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Loved "Contributions to the Terror".
One of the best books I’ve read this year is Austin's unpublished manuscript excerpted in @minorliteratures.bsky.social, below. (Another is Nathan Knapp’s Daybook. Not sure what they’re feeding those boys in Nashville.)
minorliteratures.com/2024/09/17/c...
One of the best books I’ve read this year is Austin's unpublished manuscript excerpted in @minorliteratures.bsky.social, below. (Another is Nathan Knapp’s Daybook. Not sure what they’re feeding those boys in Nashville.)
minorliteratures.com/2024/09/17/c...
May 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Loved "Contributions to the Terror".
One of the best books I’ve read this year is Austin's unpublished manuscript excerpted in @minorliteratures.bsky.social, below. (Another is Nathan Knapp’s Daybook. Not sure what they’re feeding those boys in Nashville.)
minorliteratures.com/2024/09/17/c...
One of the best books I’ve read this year is Austin's unpublished manuscript excerpted in @minorliteratures.bsky.social, below. (Another is Nathan Knapp’s Daybook. Not sure what they’re feeding those boys in Nashville.)
minorliteratures.com/2024/09/17/c...
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"They were told ‘this is a goddess,’ and they hated her, but for the most part, they just said ‘okay.’ And it isn’t as though this goddess appeared to them. No one had visions of her."
If you haven't yet, or if you wish to again, read this masterful work from @adamsorardor.bsky.social
If you haven't yet, or if you wish to again, read this masterful work from @adamsorardor.bsky.social
Today we're featuring a fiction piece from our Spring 2025 Issue (OUT NOW), "Contributions to the Terror," written by
@adamsorardor.bsky.social!
@adamsorardor.bsky.social!
May 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"They were told ‘this is a goddess,’ and they hated her, but for the most part, they just said ‘okay.’ And it isn’t as though this goddess appeared to them. No one had visions of her."
If you haven't yet, or if you wish to again, read this masterful work from @adamsorardor.bsky.social
If you haven't yet, or if you wish to again, read this masterful work from @adamsorardor.bsky.social
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Have you been sentenced to die? If Judgement Day arrives by degrees, over decades, would you notice the incremental impacts of that verdict? What is Nature? I can picture the life of a cow, but the life of a plant?
New story out today with @thedodgemag.bsky.social.
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New story out today with @thedodgemag.bsky.social.
www.thedodgemag.com/austinadams1
Contributions to the Terror by Austin Adams — The Dodge
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April 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Have you been sentenced to die? If Judgement Day arrives by degrees, over decades, would you notice the incremental impacts of that verdict? What is Nature? I can picture the life of a cow, but the life of a plant?
New story out today with @thedodgemag.bsky.social.
www.thedodgemag.com/austinadams1
New story out today with @thedodgemag.bsky.social.
www.thedodgemag.com/austinadams1
"$15,000?! Stephen King makes that for writing 'Boo!' on a cocktail napkin!"
May 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"$15,000?! Stephen King makes that for writing 'Boo!' on a cocktail napkin!"