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Pall of Ash (Paula D. Ashe)
@pauladashe.bsky.social
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Award winning author of WE ARE HERE TO HURT EACH OTHER. Developmental editor. Hellraiser obsessive. Queen of Martyrs. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏽. Opinions = mine alone. Rep: Lane Heymont

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Heads up: I never gave Nocturnicorn Books permission to include my name on any promotional materials for this anthology. I never submitted to it or gave them permission to publish any reprints. I don’t know when/if this anthology will be released, but they are advertising for subs. (Don’t submit.)
A cover art workup for an anthology titled Le Fantastique A Literary Tribute to Clive Barker.
June 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Friendly reminder that I do developmental editing and sensitivity reads and (if I may say), am pretty good at it.
Graphic advertising my developmental editing services. Text reads: “DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING SERVICES by Shirley Jackson Award Winner Paula D. Ashe Pricing • Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories: 4c/word • Flash fiction: 5c/word • Nonfiction: $60/hr avg Contact Me pauladashe@gmail.com Scan QR code below Payments accepted via PayPal, Zelle, and Apple Cash Flexible rates for members of marginalized communities.” Kindly designed by @raewilde
February 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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I bet Karl Marx was pretty cool as a baby. Super fussy about super structure.
An absurd photoshopped image of elderly, large-bearded Karl Marx’s face on a baby wearing the Soviet hammer and sickle in red with red baby booties. 😂
February 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Keep creating your art and work and love, my friends; they hate that shit!

Have a lovely day, folks. ❤️
A cloud fluff dog (white samoyed) running with tongue out looking very happy, pink text overlay says, in parentheses: “(i am off to commit the sin of empathy)”
January 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Stole from @tiffmorris.bsky.social
A black and white image of philosopher, prisoner, and anti-fascist scholar Antonio Gramsci. The following text is written over the image, “"We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." — Antonio Gramsci”
January 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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13.) My Hellraiser collection, the most recent addition being this press kit from Hellbound: Hellraiser II that cannot arrive soon enough.
A screenshot of an Ebay listing for the press kit from Hellbound: Hellraiser II
January 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I be thinking this too and then I think Monica Bellucci and I am also correct.
Monica Bellucci in a promotional still as one of Dracula’s brides from Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
January 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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My roommate’s cats
Delores and Debbie also do developmental edits. My second draft needs a lot of work, but I’m confident they’ll get me together. Their rates are astronomical though, so you’ll likely want to book me instead.
Two cats on a couch. The striped tabby with a white tummy and paws has one paw on a short story draft. The other cat is grey and white, with her white paw underneath the papers. My developmental editing services ad. It reads: “DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING SERVICES by Shirley Jackson Award Winner Paula D. Ashe Pricing • Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories: 4c/word • Flash fiction: 5c/word • Nonfiction: $60/hr avg Contact Me pauladashe@gmail.com Scan QR code below Payments accepted via PayPal, Zelle, and Apple Cash Flexible rates for members of marginalized communities”
December 26, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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Friendly reminder to set out fresh (or store bought) souls for Leviathan in honor of Hellbound: Hellraiser II, which was released on today (Christmas Eve Eve) in 1988.
Poster art for Hellbound: Hellraiser II
December 24, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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Shocked to say this but the Fear Street movies go kinda hard. Watching the last one now.
Posters from the three Fear Street films: Fear Street 1994, Fear Street 1978, and Fear Street 1666.
December 21, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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RIGHT?! The playbook is right here!!! 😂
Scenes from the film Mars Attacks where residents of a nursing home giddily witness alien invaders decimate the US government.
December 20, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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The end of the year is almost here. Lots of folks are struggling to finish up projects, trying to start new ones, or staring balefully at projects that have stalled. 😩 That sucks! Let me help you out with that. 🙌🏽
Blue and orange square with design embellishments and a black and white selfie. Text reads: DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING SERVICES by Shirley Jackson Award Winner Paula D. Ashe Pricing • Novellas, Novelettes, Short Stories: 4c/word • Flash fiction: 5c/word • Nonfiction: $60/hr avg Contact Me pauladashe@gmail.com Scan QR code below Payments accepted via PayPal, Zelle, and Apple Cash Flexible rates for members of marginalized communities
December 11, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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Mr. Wheeler’s worthlessness is unmatched. “This is our government, they’re on our side.” 🤓
Mr. Wheeler from Stranger Things
December 6, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Oh it’s not just you and the familiarity between the two is intentional:
A screenshot from the Wikipedia entry for Franz Leiber’s “Our Lady of Darkness”. It reads, “The novel mentions the authors Jack London, Ambrose Bierce and Clark Ashton Smith, who all lived part of their lives in San Francisco. The title is taken from Thomas De Quincey's Suspiria de Profundis, and references are also made to M. R. James's ghost stories, and to the work of fantasy/horror writers such as H.P. Lovecraft.”
December 5, 2024 at 5:40 AM
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Every second of Suspiria (2018) fills me with glee.
Still from Suspiria 2018 of a character’s journal being held open by a psychiatrist. In the center of the page is a list: Mother Tenebrarum, Mother Lachrymarum, Mother Suspiriorum
December 5, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the holy Trinity.
Trinity, Neo, and Morpheus in a promotional still for The Matrix: Revolutions.
December 1, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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DOGE
November 13, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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On the left is my response to a friend’s inquiry about my current writing projects. On the right is a pic from today.

We made it through another day. See y’all tomorrow. 👋
A screenshot of a Facebook post that reads, “I’m supposed to be writing a number of things but instead I’m writing about perverts and insane people given unfettered access to scissors.” Beneath the text is an image of David from Schitts’s Creek, gesturing emphatically in confusion while the overlay text reads, “NO CLUE!” A pic of me, a middle aged Black woman sitting in a cozy home. My hair is short and tinged dark blue.
November 11, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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Somewhere along the coast of Lake Michigan.
An image taken on the coast of Lake Michigan.
September 1, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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Friday night I won a Joseph S. Pulver Sr. Weird Fiction Award alongside @lcvonhessen.bsky.social. What an amazing and incredible honor.
August 18, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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COME FIND ME AT THE OUTER DARK TABLE AT NECRONOMICON AND BUY SOME BOOKS
A stylish pile of copies of my book, We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
August 17, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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No matter your configuration, have a lovely Valentine’s Day. 🖤
February 14, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Sick shit (complimentary).
Alison Rumfitt’s novel Brainwyrms beside Julie Taymor’s Titus on DVD
January 19, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Anybody know where I can get some of those hooks from Suspiria (2018)? I watched it over the weekend and now it’s my hyperfixation because of course it is.
Cover art for the film Suspiria (2018) Promotional image of Tilda Swinton as Madame Blanc, striking in a red robe in a dark room. Image of Dakota Johnson as Susie Bannion staring at the program from a performance of Volk featuring a stylized image of Madame Blanc. Patricia Hingle’s diary, open to an entry about Mother Tenebrarum, Mother Lachrymarum, Mother Susipriorum, and Mother Markos
January 15, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS I HAVE THAT DISEASE FROM 28 WEEKS LATER SORRY (I have a cold and conjunctivitis I’m fine but I really hope you had a good holi/day)
December 26, 2023 at 3:19 AM