Angie Ashton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2023

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Recurrence” by Angie Ashton

Submitted to Contest #206

Jackie automatically reached a hand toward her face to push her glasses back up the bridge of her nose, sure as anything that they had inched down like they always did. Except now, her hand was met by only the beads of sweat rolling down her face. She hadn’t worn glasses since her sophomore year of high school, when the combination of the coke-bottle thick, plastic rimmed eye wear and the metal gleam off her braces had made for one truly horrific yearbook picture. She lowered her hand and shook off the memories. There wer...

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“A Good Cup of Tea ” by Angie Ashton

Submitted to Contest #202

Trigger Warning - Abortion Lisa sat quietly on the edge of the couch in the living room. The room was immaculately clean. Lisa thought of her own apartment and how there wasn’t any spot in the whole place that was as clean as this one room. She hoped that this kindness would not carry an expectation of an invitation to her own place. As she waited for her host to bring the promised tea, Lisa surveyed the room. The wall across from her showed aged and yellowing pictures of her host's family members, long since dead...

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“Solo Red Cup” by Angie Ashton

Submitted to Contest #201

        She had saved her money for months, pulling extra shifts, doing odd jobs whenever she could, delivering meals to strangers and carting strangers around in her Aunt’s car because her own would never have been approved by any of the ride share apps. Not that her Aunt would have noticed, the regimen of meds she was on these days had rendered her mostly catatonic. Fortunately, her insurance and savings had been enough to have in-home care, including the hospital bed, monitors, and an asso...

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Author bio

Angie was born on a Friday the 13th in 1970. Her writing tends toward the creepy, the dark, or the haunted - in whatever sense that may be. She would write more often, but her day job often interferes, as do her two black cats who love to lay on a warm keyboard.