A. Peterson
@adampeterson.net
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Writer of fiction, film, and this bio.
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Thrilled to have GOSPELS coming out soon and very much grateful to everyone at AWP, Mad Creek, and of course Kevin.
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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Someone check to see if Air Force One was on TV in the past week.
about 11 hours ago
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Ah, so this is the story draft where everyone talks like a cowboy for some reason.
1 day ago
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Crimes it is then.
2 days ago
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The energy I’m bringing into 2026: replacing the phone app in the dock with my insurance company’s.
3 days ago
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Okay, I have thought about it, and I'm ready to sign-up for the French Resistance.
4 days ago
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Still time left to walk 314,211 steps and hit my target for 2025.
5 days ago
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Me: I think someone stole my bike. Hardened, alcoholic British detective: You think I caire? Me boy diayed, didn’t hee? Me: Yeah, so it’s red.
13 days ago
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Look at my wall of fancy hardcover books. It’s mostly Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full but there’s a Franzen in there somewhere.
17 days ago
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Thrilled to have a story in the new issue of
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BOMB Magazine | All We Must Destroy, All We Must Save
After extraterrestrials send a menacing message to Earth, a group of teenagers—supervised only by a moody AI—are sent across space to settle the score.
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2025/12/15/all-we-must-destroy-all-we-must-save-adam-peterson/
18 days ago
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Things: bad.
20 days ago
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The shopping lists and story ideas in my gmail drafts locked in a competition over which should embarrass me more.
22 days ago
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If you ever hear me call something outstanding, I mean it the other way.
23 days ago
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Like if the United Lounge were a person.
28 days ago
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Got that dog on me.
29 days ago
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No one: The movie Blue Moon: I bet you want to see a young George Roy Hill, don’t you perverts? Discover what inspired him? Lil winky wink to ol’ GRH to boost that box office?
about 1 month ago
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Feel like if we got the whole neighborhood together, we could get the mailman a Dodge Charger for the holidays.
about 1 month ago
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Me: Really loved revisiting that David Berman album. Spotify: So you also love The Clientele! Me: Well, I think they're kinda... Spotify: Jonathan Richman it is! Me: Play Butlerian Jihad.
about 1 month ago
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Well it’s here. The Saturdayist Friday.
about 1 month ago
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Haven't heard from Sears today. Starting to think they aren't thankful that I purchased a hand blender in 2014.
about 1 month ago
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I don't want to be mayor, but it'd be nice to be asked.
about 1 month ago
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Every language program should start by teaching you how to say, "Look, I'm trying really hard but it's not working."
about 1 month ago
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"AI now has PhD level intelligence." Cool, man, I've got a PhD and last night my brain told me I owned an old Ford truck and Martin Scorsese needed me to fix it so I could drive him to Walgreens. Good luck making it solve physics or whatever.
about 2 months ago
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Message from my old mechanic just to let me know that sometimes they still think about me.
about 2 months ago
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Magician: Pick a card. Me: Fleer '87 Bobby Bonilla rookie.
about 2 months ago
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*A young Predator returns from its first hunt with a copy of American Football's self-titled debut*
about 2 months ago
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Once again I forgot to dress as Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet for Halloween and instead dressed that way today.
about 2 months ago
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Emailing my doctor’s office to ask where I can pick up my blood when they’re done with it.
about 2 months ago
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Can Inanimate Objects Be Ornery: A Dissertation
about 2 months ago
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I know, sidewalk. I know.
about 2 months ago
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Uncles around the country growing increasingly anxious, still uncertain over what this year's Thanksgiving rant will be about without Joe Brandon.
about 2 months ago
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Not saying we shouldn't go back now, but I think fighting the Revolution over the word "chuffed" was the right decision for America at the time.
about 2 months ago
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Literature needs to take a cue from music and add more "alt"-genres. Alt-Crime. Alt-Romance. Alt-Historical. Alt-Middle Grade. I don't know what this means either, but we should find out.
about 2 months ago
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Me: Should my car be doing that? Mechanic: “Should” your car be doing that is the wrong question as it is intention not form that defines art. Me: Here’s $3500.
2 months ago
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November 1st, back to only me asking who I’m supposed to be.
2 months ago
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*my first day as an offensive coordinator* “Okay, boys, this is gonna be hard because you can’t see what I’m drawing on my hand but.”
2 months ago
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Thanks, but I already know how to lose a Time War.
2 months ago
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Clayton Kershaw coming into this game is like taking a nutcracker off a Christmas tree and telling it to fight in a real war.
2 months ago
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The Ump Cam should never turn off. A whole channel. His wife, she needs to know. Begs of him. Some calls he cannot say. He’s out.
2 months ago
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You never believe in me, I yell at my parents. I could city plan. I could city plan so much.
2 months ago
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She's not saying it, but I can tell the dog would respect me more if I could dunk.
2 months ago
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When someone orders the thing I was going to order.
2 months ago
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Holding an all-hands meeting to go over our quarterly performance with everyone in the coffee shop.
2 months ago
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Telling the kids that batteries once faced different directions in the remote. And that was important. A promise. A creed.
2 months ago
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I reject the promise.
3 months ago
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No Kings LA.
3 months ago
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Library holds growing increasingly erratic.
3 months ago
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Rewriting "Country Roads" to be about Nebraska. I've got "Prairie Papa" and absolutely nothing else.
3 months ago
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*sigh* Poem draft slowly became a life insurance jingle again.
3 months ago
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Considering becoming a proprietor. But of what and how still tbd.
3 months ago
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Making Watch Duty-style app that issues warnings about LA rain.
3 months ago
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