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Ashley Stokes

@ashleystokes.bsky.social

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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

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 23h

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Salvador Dali

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 23h

Ithell Colquhoun

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ithell Colquhoun

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 2d

whatever/ returns from oblivion/ returns to find a voice.

Louise Glück

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 2d

Ithell Colquhoun

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 3d

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

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 4d

Ithell Colquhoun

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 4d

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more
mystery.

Anais Nin

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 4d

Marion Elizabeth Adnams

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 5d

I am a mask, concealing the real.

Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 5d

Marion Elizabeth Adnams

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 7d

“On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 7d

Marion Elizabeth Adnams

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 7d

Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 8d

Marion Elizabeth Adnams

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 8d

death cannot harm me
more than you have harmed me,
my beloved life.

Louise Glück, Averno

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 9d

Marion Elizabeth Adnams

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 9d

Some things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors.

Willow, The Wicker Man

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 10d

Marion Elizabeth Adnams

Reposted by Ashley Stokes

eyglo @eyglo.bsky.social · 10d

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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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 10d

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.

H.P. Lovecraft

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 11d

Marion Elizabeth Adnams

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe, despite ideology, politics, and history, a genuine catastrophe is always personal bathos at the core. Life can’t be impugned for any failure to trivialize people.

Philip Roth, I Married a Communist

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 11d

georges rouault