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I have 210 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 168540 times
and 40 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Mark Ashley
My stories
Blood Metal
through the heat river blood metal waking blade spear forest walks
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- 910 reads
Forgotten Field
Walking weary night That stalks in dank gullies And dry sand And waits. Night that strays into wounded morning Whispers black into the dawn. Whispers...
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- 814 reads
When the lips touch
When the lips touch, Flesh on flesh, Enfolding arms and a shared heartbeat. Sweet whispers in the night and the warmth of her hand. "Stay with me." Her gentle breath wanders over my cheek. A flood of emotion overwhelms me And I reach out and hold her. To feel the smoothness of my skin And her soft hair brushing my shoulder. Then she sinks and dissolves into darkness. I reach out once more, Trying to grasp the light behind the dream.
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- 823 reads
God Sleeps in Paddington Station
God sleeps in Paddington Station On a damp and smelly mattress Outside the toilets Now barred for want of 20 pence. He keeps warm By wrapping himself
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- 887 reads
Froppington Gore
An old West Country rhyme
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- 691 reads