Upcoming Projects
Discover more about Amadea's latest manuscripts on her Black List profile. See her published short stories below:
Retrospective
When Norah Destry relives war correspondent Truce Evan’s frontline memories, she learns through the revival of art and war that there are many ways to bring someone back to life.
As a not-yet-published manuscript, this debut novel was awarded the Page Turner Awards Young Writer Award in November, 2023.
Remember to Forget
A was correspondent stumbles upon the music that sparks echoes of a long-lost and forgotten home.
A short-listed entry for their triennial fiction contest, this story was originally published on the Site Jerry Jazz Musician in October, 2023.
Armed Delilahs
A Parisian girl comes of age during the Nazi Occupation and becomes entangled in the hair politics of the time.
A short-listed entry for their triennial fiction contest, this story was originally published on the Site Jerry Jazz Musician in March, 2023.
The Usual Solace
The wives of Rye County take their lives into their own hands.
This story placed as a finalist for the Women on Writing Fall 2022 Flash Fiction Contest and was originally published on the WOW site in February, 2023.
Streamline Moderne
A laid-off silent-era screenwriter must pawn her typewriter. She recalls her old friend Fitz's infatuation with repeating the past.
This story was a finalist in the October 2022 F. Scott Fitzgerald Festival Short Story Competition, and later published on the site Jerry Jazz Musician in July, 2023.
Opus One
A young woman reflects during an evening spent dancing with soldiers shortly heading off to fight in the Second World War.
This story was first published in Jerry Jazz Musician in March, 2022 and derives its title from Sy Oliver’s 1943 song of the same name.