Ashley Stokes
@ashleystokes.bsky.social
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Ashley Stokes
@ashleystokes.bsky.social
· Nov 14
DEVOUR ISSUE V: Vacancy by Ashley Stokes
YouTube video by DEVOUR AUDIOFILES
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The comments say, Incredible, absorbing, terrifying‘ and ,this is some amazing storytelling‘
Are you ready for your Vacancy?
youtu.be/4d4ZpiyuZk8?...
Are you ready for your Vacancy?
youtu.be/4d4ZpiyuZk8?...
I have a few places left on the Unthank School Online Fiction Workshop for January.
Friendly international group; bespoke, expert feedback; caters for all genres long and short, and life writing and creative nonfiction.
If you’d like to chat, drop me a DM.
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Friendly international group; bespoke, expert feedback; caters for all genres long and short, and life writing and creative nonfiction.
If you’d like to chat, drop me a DM.
www.unthankschool.com/product/onli...
Online Fiction Workshop
Next session runs 12th January to 19th March 2026.
A 12-week online fiction workshop for writers with work-in-progress in any form or genre
Experiment and grow your writing, or edit and polish f...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I have a few places left on the Unthank School Online Fiction Workshop for January.
Friendly international group; bespoke, expert feedback; caters for all genres long and short, and life writing and creative nonfiction.
If you’d like to chat, drop me a DM.
www.unthankschool.com/product/onli...
Friendly international group; bespoke, expert feedback; caters for all genres long and short, and life writing and creative nonfiction.
If you’d like to chat, drop me a DM.
www.unthankschool.com/product/onli...
I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.
Louise Gluck
Louise Gluck
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.
Louise Gluck
Louise Gluck
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Montesquieu
Montesquieu
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Montesquieu
Montesquieu
“I wish to believe but believe is a
graveyard.
we have narrowed it down to
the butcherknife and the
mockingbird
wish us
luck.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
graveyard.
we have narrowed it down to
the butcherknife and the
mockingbird
wish us
luck.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
“I wish to believe but believe is a
graveyard.
we have narrowed it down to
the butcherknife and the
mockingbird
wish us
luck.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
graveyard.
we have narrowed it down to
the butcherknife and the
mockingbird
wish us
luck.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell
George Orwell
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell
George Orwell
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
„For believing what you do, we confer upon you a rare gift, these days—a martyr’s death“.
Lord Summerisle, The Wicker Man
Lord Summerisle, The Wicker Man
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
„For believing what you do, we confer upon you a rare gift, these days—a martyr’s death“.
Lord Summerisle, The Wicker Man
Lord Summerisle, The Wicker Man
The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.
H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.
H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
The longer Z lived there, the more she believed that the house was bigger in the dark, that it had more rooms at night, and that there were other people living in the house she could not see.
FLOWERS OF ROMAMCE
FLOWERS OF ROMAMCE
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The longer Z lived there, the more she believed that the house was bigger in the dark, that it had more rooms at night, and that there were other people living in the house she could not see.
FLOWERS OF ROMAMCE
FLOWERS OF ROMAMCE
When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But the film is a sadd’ning bore
‚Cause I wrote it ten times or more.
‚Cause I wrote it ten times or more.
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
But the film is a sadd’ning bore
‚Cause I wrote it ten times or more.
‚Cause I wrote it ten times or more.