Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨
@ashdoeswords.bsky.social
She reads. She writes. She aspires to dismantle the patriarchy. 🖋️📚✨
Words in HAD💀, NFFR, Bath Flash, YIV, JAKE, After Happy Hour Review, FlashFlood, No Sleep, 100-Foot Crow, & more.
Soon: foofaraw, N&S,
Writing Battle winner ⚔️
🕸️: ashleighadamswrites.com
Words in HAD💀, NFFR, Bath Flash, YIV, JAKE, After Happy Hour Review, FlashFlood, No Sleep, 100-Foot Crow, & more.
Soon: foofaraw, N&S,
Writing Battle winner ⚔️
🕸️: ashleighadamswrites.com
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just banger after banger lately! 🔥
today from Ashleigh Adams:
"My husband told me he fucked you on a bench in a locker room senior year of high school, so I looked you up on Instagram. I hate you, obviously, because I have to, on principle, but also..."
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today from Ashleigh Adams:
"My husband told me he fucked you on a bench in a locker room senior year of high school, so I looked you up on Instagram. I hate you, obviously, because I have to, on principle, but also..."
https://www.havehashad.com/qsm30
Her Hair is Full of Secrets and Ouai Dry Shampoo by Ashleigh Adams
My husband told me he fucked you on a bench in a locker room senior year of high school, so I looked you up on Instagram. I hate you, obviously, because I have to, on principle, but also you have Rae…
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My unhinged little piece about a booze-fueled social media spiral is up at @havehashad.com! 💀 🎉 I am feeling some kinda way - I have honestly never been happier for the feral inner workings of my brain to be on display.
Cheers, friends! 🥂
Cheers, friends! 🥂
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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. 🎉
October 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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. 🎉
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. 🎉
October 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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. 🎉
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?!
Excited to share my newest piece in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Issue 36: "Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?"
Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including my work alongside that of so many other remarkable writers!
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Thank you @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including my work alongside that of so many other remarkable writers!
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Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years? - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash by Sarah Lynn Hurd You might be flat on your back, picking at loose fibers in a worn Turkish rug you inherited from your mother, who managed a Pier 1 I...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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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"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
Love this perfect coming-of-age story by my talented friend @ashdoeswords.bsky.social! Dripping with nostalgia bleeding through thin paper bags <3
Hello, hello, hello, how low? Tuesday's #FlashFiction smells like (pre)teen spirit. Tune into "The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died" by @ashdoeswords.bsky.social!
The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died | Your Impossible Voice
By Ashleigh Adams — "That June, I stole a red-and-black checkered flannel from my stepdad and frayed the hem with kitchen shears."
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October 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"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
Love this perfect coming-of-age story by my talented friend @ashdoeswords.bsky.social! Dripping with nostalgia bleeding through thin paper bags <3
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 💕💕💕
folks at @yourimpossiblevoice.com I am forever grateful to y’all for giving this one a good home 💕💕💕
Hello, hello, hello, how low? Tuesday's #FlashFiction smells like (pre)teen spirit. Tune into "The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died" by @ashdoeswords.bsky.social!
The Summer After Kurt Cobain Died | Your Impossible Voice
By Ashleigh Adams — "That June, I stole a red-and-black checkered flannel from my stepdad and frayed the hem with kitchen shears."
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October 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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 💕💕💕
folks at @yourimpossiblevoice.com I am forever grateful to y’all for giving this one a good home 💕💕💕
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.
Our workshop participants slay us! More than 30 publications reported to us in September! We couldn't be prouder. Congratulations, trousers! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...
SmokeLong Workshop Celebration — September 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...
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September 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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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My steampunk adventure featuring a plucky young pilot is now available to read at Intrepidus Ink!
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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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September 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My steampunk adventure featuring a plucky young pilot is now available to read at Intrepidus Ink!
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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. 🍂✨☕️
September 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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. 🍂✨☕️
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. 💕
This makes me so happy I could cry. Black Sky, Blue Earth - my aching story about climate collapse & personal rebirth - is the lead story in this year’s @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. It has a lot of my soul in it. Please read it & all of Oyster River’s work
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September 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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. 💕
Reposted by Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨
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 !
Danger: your heart might be at risk on reading this. Do it anyway.
And happy tenth birthday @nffr.bsky.social !
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 🍾🥂
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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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September 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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 !
Danger: your heart might be at risk on reading this. Do it anyway.
And happy tenth birthday @nffr.bsky.social !
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“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 🧡🧡🧡
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 🍾🥂
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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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September 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
“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 🧡🧡🧡
Reading is resistance. 🫡💪
September 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Reading is resistance. 🫡💪
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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 💔
If you're even a little bit masochistic, go read @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's story in @nffr.bsky.social this month 💔
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 🍾🥂
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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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September 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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 💔
If you're even a little bit masochistic, go read @ashdoeswords.bsky.social's story in @nffr.bsky.social this month 💔
Reposted by Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨
Another talented friend sharing her words in one of the best places around!
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 🍾🥂
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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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September 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Another talented friend sharing her words in one of the best places around!
Reposted by Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨
"Because Thursdays were ours"😭😭 All the feels and some gorgeous sensory details in this flash stunner from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social
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 🍾🥂
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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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September 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"Because Thursdays were ours"😭😭 All the feels and some gorgeous sensory details in this flash stunner from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social
Reposted by Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨
If you feel like starting your month with a good cry, here are some beautiful words from the talented @ashdoeswords.bsky.social
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 🍾🥂
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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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September 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If you feel like starting your month with a good cry, here are some beautiful words from the talented @ashdoeswords.bsky.social
Reposted by Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨
"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:
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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:
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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.
newflashfiction.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"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...
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...
Reposted by Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨
‘…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 🥃
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Gorgeous details in this new flash from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social 🥃
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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.
newflashfiction.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
‘…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 🥃
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Gorgeous details in this new flash from @ashdoeswords.bsky.social in @nffr.bsky.social 🥃
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Hey, it’s me! ✨🤩🎉💕 so proud to be a part of this issue alongside so many other INCREDIBLE writers.
We are delighted to share our anniversary issue with you. 10 years 🥳 🎉 Featuring stories by:
Ashleigh Adams
Mitchell Gauvin
S.A. Greene
Neil James
Rebecca Klassen
Kathryn Kulpa
Elana Lavine
Andrew Graham Martin Gregory Meece
Sumitra Singam
Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
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Ashleigh Adams
Mitchell Gauvin
S.A. Greene
Neil James
Rebecca Klassen
Kathryn Kulpa
Elana Lavine
Andrew Graham Martin Gregory Meece
Sumitra Singam
Vijayalakshmi Sridhar
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September 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Hey, it’s me! ✨🤩🎉💕 so proud to be a part of this issue alongside so many other INCREDIBLE writers.
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 🍾🥂
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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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September 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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 🍾🥂
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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.” 🥛
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“They were so exquisitely calibrated, they could detect when a houseguest was secretly disappointed there was no skimmed milk.” 🥛
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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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August 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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-...
“They were so exquisitely calibrated, they could detect when a houseguest was secretly disappointed there was no skimmed milk.” 🥛
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
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.
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“…her Spanish verbs missing shoelaces, his English nouns wearing mismatched socks.”
My god.
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Invisible Measures
By Mizuki Yamagen (Highly Commended)
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August 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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-...
“…her Spanish verbs missing shoelaces, his English nouns wearing mismatched socks.”
My god.
www.frazzledlit.com/p/invisible-...
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.
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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.
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They, Her, Us by MM Schreier — Just Keep Up Magazine
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August 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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-...
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-...
Love this one. Autumn doesn’t miss. www.chicagowrites.org/write_city/1...
Cold Snap
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August 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Love this one. Autumn doesn’t miss. www.chicagowrites.org/write_city/1...
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. 🙌✨💕
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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. 🙌✨💕