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Ashley Stokes
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Writer and Ghostwriter Weird-Horror and Comedy https://ashleystokes.net/
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · Nov 14
The comments say, Incredible, absorbing, terrifying‘ and ,this is some amazing storytelling‘

Are you ready for your Vacancy?

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DEVOUR ISSUE V: Vacancy by Ashley Stokes
YouTube video by DEVOUR AUDIOFILES
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 8h
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Hermann Hesse
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 2d
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Salvador Dali
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 3d
There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

William Golding, The Spire
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 4d
whatever/ returns from oblivion/ returns to find a voice.

Louise Glück
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 5d
I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

William Herschel
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 6d
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more
mystery.

Anais Nin
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Marion Elizabeth Adnams
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 7d
I am a mask, concealing the real.

Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 8d
“On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 9d
Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 10d
death cannot harm me
more than you have harmed me,
my beloved life.

Louise Glück, Averno
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 11d
Some things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors.

Willow, The Wicker Man
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eyglo @eyglo.bsky.social · 12d
Just a kindly reminder that the story that should-be-science-fiction-but-soon-won't be, named Cautionary Pulses is available in the new Interzone, written by me and @ashleystokes.bsky.social.
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Interzone #303
In this issue of Interzone: stories by Nathan Brown × Sasha Brown, Rachael Cupp, Eygló Karlsdóttir × Ashley Stokes, Crystal Koo, Giselle Leeb, Humphrey Price, Kat Sedia, Ben Tufnell, Leslie What, and ...
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