Writer and Ghostwriter Weird-Horror and Comedy https://ashleystokes.net/ https://theghostingcompany.com/https://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mm4eshuywk2iJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire18 May 2026 07:41 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4eshuywk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mm4df2yh7k2mteresa carneiro18 May 2026 07:16 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4df2yh7k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mm25myntqc2u“The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.” ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta17 May 2026 10:27 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm25myntqc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mm22z4t3os2rHelene Schjerfbeck17 May 2026 09:40 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm22z4t3os2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlxjbb3vq22y“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?” ― Franz Kafka16 May 2026 09:18 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxjbb3vq22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlxfv6a6t22yHelene Schjerfbeck16 May 2026 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxfv6a6t22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlv3iwpdx22x„You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.“ Ash, Alien15 May 2026 10:06 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlv3iwpdx22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlv2w2tuf22pHelene Schjerfbeck15 May 2026 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlv2w2tuf22phttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlsdker3ms25One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee14 May 2026 07:52 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsdker3ms25https://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlsc4wk4ic22Helene Schjerfbeck14 May 2026 07:27 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsc4wk4ic22https://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlps22e7wc2eA disaster like this leaves no mark on the earth. And people like that - they think it gives them a fresh start. Louise Glück13 May 2026 07:33 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlps22e7wc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlpoyb24y22kHelene Schjerfbeck13 May 2026 06:39 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpoyb24y22khttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlnbe3skr22dTrue literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics. Yevgeny Zamyatin12 May 2026 07:29 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnbe3skr22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mln5odbyts27Helene Schjerfbeck12 May 2026 06:23 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mln5odbyts27https://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlkpjdbio226The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain11 May 2026 07:05 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkpjdbio226https://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlkohkcdoc26Helene Schjerfbeck11 May 2026 06:46 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkohkcdoc26https://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlinnrwnys2xFor there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being10 May 2026 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlinnrwnys2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlikxdie7c2xUbaldo Oppi10 May 2026 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlikxdie7c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlgbu3cql22n09 May 2026 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgbu3cql22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlfzai7lqc2aI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. John Donne09 May 2026 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlfzai7lqc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlfz4tr2pk2aUbaldo Oppi09 May 2026 10:13 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlfz4tr2pk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mldifo33dc2lYou want it Oranger? ashleystokes.net/blog/ Thanks to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @interzone.press08 May 2026 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldifo33dc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mldi3vtnqk2tYou want it Oranger? ashleystokes.net/blog/ https://ashleystokes.net/blog/08 May 2026 10:03 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldi3vtnqk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mldaciwjls2lSometimes a man or woman forces his despair on another person... outside, a summer evening, a whole world thrown away on the moon: groups of silver forms.” Louise Gluck, Love in Moonlight08 May 2026 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldaciwjls2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mld5b7ltv22xUbaldo Oppi08 May 2026 06:50 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mld5b7ltv22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlb753lvxc2kCertified Weirdo07 May 2026 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb753lvxc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlan5ofjqk22“The devil lies right under our feet. Everyone thinks they’d recognise his appearance, even without a body.” Anne Sexton07 May 2026 06:56 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlan5ofjqk22https://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3mlalsscv2c22Ubaldo Oppi07 May 2026 06:32 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlalsscv2c22https://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3ml63kgt7s22uOne characteristic of hell is its unreality, which might be thought to mitigate hell’s terrors but perhaps makes them all the worse. Jorge Luis Borges06 May 2026 06:36 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml63kgt7s22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ashleystokes.bsky.social/post/3ml63gvgllc2uUbaldo Oppi06 May 2026 06:34 +0000at://did:plc:pubkxej4h52umd2c7aducfzt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml63gvgllc2u