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I have 308 stories published in 10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 107578 times and 173 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Ashton Macaulay

My name is Ashton, I am the author of the Nick Ventner Adventures, currently available anywhere books are sold, but if you need some links: 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

A Story in a Forest (1)

A Story in a Forest By Aston Macaulay Prologue: The Premier “Welcome folks, we are live here at the premier of the documentary that has had the...

The Mallard God Complex (12)

12. Full Moon And then, as if nothing had happened, I am back in the moment. There is no branch crack and I am walking through the forest. The stink...

The Mallard God Complex (11)

11. Wasteland When I was a kid I was told a story about the deserts that lay beyond the city walls. First that we were not the reason that they were...

Shift (1)

Sometimes we forget where we are in the moment and don’t to see. The hands of death clutch my throat and yet I find that I let them. I embrace them...

The Mallard God Complex (13)

13. Little Pistol Deep in the pine forests that hide beyond the edges of the desert there is a shack. There’s not much to it other than a few...

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