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I have 321 stories published in 9 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 204948 times and 196 of my stories have been cherry picked.
4 of my 122 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 4 votes

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Ashton Macaulay

My new comedic science fiction novel, One Night at Kedasi is available now anywhere books are sold! 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 cat and two dogs. 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!

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The Politics of Concrete

Johnny Faucet and Billy Sink—not their given names—were deep in the bowels of a concrete processing plant at a time when no one was supposed to be...
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Just in Case

​Lenny sat down on a faded bar stool held together by duct tape. One needn’t be picky at the end of the world. Despite the dire warnings in the paper...
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Escalation

Sergeant Conrad was well versed in the art of warfare negotiation, but nothing could have prepared him for The Big Room. Deep in the bowels of a...
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Please Hold

When the world ends, humanity will be dangling by a rope it invented. In the late 21 st Century, technology advanced with blinding speed, outpacing...
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Marketing - Epilogue

Previous Chapter Epilogue – Retirement For the earliest humans, retirement was a simple principle: When someone was unable to work due to age or...

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4 of my comments have received 4 Great Feedback votes

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Oh my god, that is amazing

Posted on Fri, 06 Feb 2026

Oh my god, that is amazing and I had never heard it. Can you imagine nuclear war because Cuba ran out of ice?

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Thank you so much! Always

Posted on Thu, 15 Jan 2026

Thank you so much! Always appreciate to see that you're reading my new work :). I think you were one of the first folks to give me positive feedback on Kedasi, and now it's out there as a paperback with a real publisher. Wild times. 

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Thanks for reading! This one

Posted on Thu, 15 Jan 2026

Thanks for reading! This one is inspired by a news story I read last year. I didn't realize that military forces will often tell each other a strike is coming so they can clear personnel out. On the one hand, glad people aren't being hurt in that...

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Thank you very much! I will

Posted on Mon, 04 Aug 2025

Thank you very much! I will put this in my quarterly performance report. 

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