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I have 308 stories published in 9 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 137203 times and 173 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Ashton Macaulay

Pre-order my new comedic sci-fi novel, One Night at Kedasi, launching 9/23/25: https://linktr.ee/macashton

I take most of my inspiration from a lifelong anxiety disorder that has constantly tried to convince me the world revolves around my death. Writing about death-defying situations with a humorous bend has helped me cope and produced what I feel are some interesting stories. In an age filled with plenty of non-fiction to keep us grounded, I’m trying to create literature that transports readers away to the big adventure novels of old and pokes fun at just about everything that goes bump in the night.

I live in Seattle with a true menagerie of two cats and a dog. They are featured frequently in everything I do, be it typos in my work, or strange photoshops to use as my website header. Thanks for reading!

My stories

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Whiteout Rewrite (The Black Market)

9. The Black Market “This place is very dangerous,” said Nick to James, looking shiftily around the street corner they were on. They were waiting on...
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Downpour(III:8) Mickey

Here it is, the final chapter of Downpour. Had a lot of fun writing this book, and hoped it was at least not terrible to read. Thanks for all of your...
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Downpour(III:7) The Great Escape

Second to last chapter of Downpour :) 7. The Great Escape They left James’s house only saying a five second goodbye to James’s cousins, who didn’t...

Merry Nickmas [ReWrite]

Hi All, I'm not sure what the rules about plugging publications on the site are, but I'm plugging a publication! Last year I wrote a short story...
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Downpour(III:6) The Cavalry

6. The Cavalry Gabriel led them down the winding spiral staircase and into the shop landing. “As I said, you are lucky that he is so close, or you...

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