Ashley

Joined July 2019

10 stories

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I'm a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Feminist-focused.

Instagram: @ashleyleap

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Merry-Go-Round
The very things I hated about her were the things I loved about her. And I was jealous. It took me a walk around two blocks and a half to keep myself from throwing my phone into the passing silver sedan rolling over pavement to the left of me. Golden, brown, orange leaves crunched underneath my boots as I trudged through the thirty-seven-degrees “just a light breeze today!” weather. Portland gray, somehow, I wasn’t depressed yet.
By Ashleyabout a year ago in Motivation
Dinosaur
Dinosaur Scraping the bits and Pieces and remains dug and excavated As if I can reassemble the broken mirage Of morning breath and not enough room together in the shower
By Ashley2 years ago in Poets
To Give Your Last Twenty. Top Story - May 2024.
He walks oddly, shuffling and nearly tripping down the hallway toward his apartment door. I slow my pace, allowing my neighbor— a stuffy ex-marine with one missing tooth, a strong odor of liquor and two weeks' worth of unwashed stench always accompanying him—to reach his door. I crinkle my nose, nearly gagging as he dawdles ahead.
By Ashley2 years ago in Motivation
Passenger Princess
As swiftly as he came, he went. As if the anticipated birthday candle I’d been preparing to blow out all week long, I’d finally huffed over, and the thing now whispered a thin smoke trail. He’s all I thought about, but the flame now extinguished, and the aftermath floating upwards until it will one day dissipate into thin air.
By Ashley2 years ago in Writers
Even Then, They Will Know
With lust laze, they will know— With lone, wild, bold wish— (they that hope) —will burn Dash over sky’n moon,
By Ashley2 years ago in Poets
In response to Charles Bukowski
You're a writer, when the joy for writing is no longer. Grueling hours before you— Slicing of the words— Chopping of the intriticate pieces—
By Ashley3 years ago in Poets
Bullet Show. Runner-Up in Micro Heist Challenge.
The water cooler gargles from around the corner of my cubical. Paula—the Marxist who somehow remained in corporate for forty years—abruptly stops typing.
By Ashley3 years ago in Fiction
Filthy
I craved to bounce up and down on him the third time we met. The first time, trivial. Of no importance. The second time, an eyebrow raised. The third, something throbbed in between my thighs, and I had to breathe as if I were sipping through a straw.
By Ashley3 years ago in Filthy
Forced Acquiescence
Repudiated He wanes. A hellish blue. Fool, force surrendered to
By Ashley3 years ago in Poets
The Gateway Experience. Runner-Up in New Worlds Challenge.
Wave 1: Discovery Orientation Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Pressing the play button on the first audio tape, I’m ready to test this theory. The sound of binaural beats swarm through my headphones.
By Ashley3 years ago in Fiction

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Merry-Go-Round

Dinosaur

To Give Your Last Twenty. Top Story - May 2024.

Passenger Princess

Even Then, They Will Know

In response to Charles Bukowski

Bullet Show. Runner-Up in Micro Heist Challenge.

Filthy

Forced Acquiescence

The Gateway Experience. Runner-Up in New Worlds Challenge.

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