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I have 215 stories published in 10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 179430 times and 46 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Mark Ashley

 

My stories

Little Green Men

drawn, light pencil. etched with acid. "abandon all hope" with acid. beating slowly, behind, inside the wall, behind, slowly. bright golden flowers...

Thoughts taken from the 6 o?clock news

this shale hallucination glowing sparks of mercury filtered through wet sand clothed in brine a glass tower of shame fractured in the salt wind...

Winter

in summers golden fragrant mews the winter hides his weary head and whispers to the autumn mists while icy fingers wake the dead

Four Cities

Bristol: brewery stench and cliff edge perching of blistered houses drab pastel harlequin, streets flowing with human misery and human waste Birmingham: a cold stone underground,
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Vapours

Single dream resting in shadow, bright memory fading through dry brush. Hovering sounds of broken rock, and the distant cry of a lonely hawk. The...

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