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A romance script written to be read slowly and with intensity sits at the top of this blog, and it has nothing at all to do with marketing. Ashley Needles publishes fiction here, in chapters and fragments, and that is what makes the place worth finding.

Her one genuinely practical post is about language. She contrasts saying you forgot something with saying you remembered it, then lists the phrases people use to make themselves smaller: I should, I have to, I hate when, I am forced to. The suggestion is to notice them in somebody else first, which is easier than noticing your own.

She writes about leaving a small town, about a stretch of depression described from inside it, and about what people say when they learn you have no job.

There is a political piece about freedom that will not suit everyone.

Read the fiction. It is why she was writing at all.

Come Hell and High Water

Aug 1, 2012 · ashleyneedles
I looked in the mirror and it took more than a moment to recognize myself. Yes I’d definitely won the lottery. Make-up, hair style, manicure, pedicure, waxing, buffing, drying, clothing designed just…
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To a beautiful struggling soul

Jul 27, 2012 · ashleyneedles
You may some times feel like the toad in the fairy garden but You deserve to know what makes you real, What makes you a fairy in the garden. It is that…
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“Oh God, what do you do all day without a JOB?”

Jul 21, 2012 · ashleyneedles
Yes it is a question I get asked a lot. One that really makes me twist my head sideways raise my eyebrows to the ceiling and go “you’re kidding me right?” Unfortunately…
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Dear World

Jul 15, 2012 · ashleyneedles
Dear World, Some of you seem to have the misconception that in some way my life was easy. So let me begin by saying, no you would not trade lives with me.…
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Prologue

Jun 27, 2012 · ashleyneedles
“Master why do you always paint your canvas black?” The greatest painter answered, “Underneath everything revealed by light is a place light cannot reach where there is darkness” The apprentice then looked…
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Are you a slave? More on God and Government

Dec 11, 2011 · ashleyneedles
Most people wake up with the alarm clock, get ready and get to work. They pay for their gas, their clothes, their food all to go to work, so they can get…
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Till death…

Dec 10, 2011 · ashleyneedles
“I love you,” it was some thing I had longed to say to Kavyet but I knew how little he needed or wanted those words, but as I sat with my paints…
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