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A.D. Sams

Goodreads Author

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in The United States

Website

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Twitter

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Genre

Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Horror

Member Since

October 2012

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When I was young, I was surrounded by love bugs, my Maw-Maw’s rasping laughter that jiggled her belly, a field full of cows, and more Pentecostal hair than you could shake a stick at. My Paw-Paw, driven closer to heaven by his long, lean build, was the pastor. He was forthright and sincere, so when he smiled his sideways smile and explained to me that only liars lived in Georgia, the salt-and-pepper twirl of hair at the top of his head somehow drove home the point. This fact was a down-right insult to me as I was far too young to understand the twinkle in his eye. Alas, much to my protests, squalling, and outright ornery demeanor, my family moved to Georgia anyway.

I’m a long way from the swinging moss of a southeast Texas evening and the b ...more

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A.D. Sams's Blog

When Writing Prompt Turns to Projects: Glory

This story began as a writing prompt from Sara Crawford’s The 30 Day Writing Challenge. Leaving my plot to chance, I was to write down random characters, locations, and conflicts and put them in three separate bowls and draw my fate. My choices from the lists provided were: A cat with insomnia, Texas, Someone has to give up an addiction.

The thing is, I found I related to Glory more than I expected

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	Happily Never After by Kristen Duvall (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christina Elaine Collins (Contributor ), Adam Millard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bayou L'Abeille 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by A.D. Sams (?)

“Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.”
― A.D. Sams

tags: ad-sams, perseverance, perseverance-quotes, perspective, perspective-on-life, southern-women, southern-writers, strength, time, wisdom, wisdom-inspirational, wisdom-quotes

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“See the world anew and write down the bones of it.”
― A. D. Sams

tags: a-d-sams, ad-sams, alisha-sams, bones, capturing, creative-thinking-the-world, creative-writing, creativity-work, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life, life-and-living, living, sams, seeing-the-world, universe, writing

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A.D.’s Quotes

“An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

1533 likes

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, favorite-books

1612 likes

“We owe it to each other to tell stories.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, stories

384 likes

“Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: biting, doctor-who, idris, kissing, the-doctor, the-doctor-s-wife

617 likes

“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

148 likes