Short Stories
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Smile
This is a short piece I wrote on Vocal, hope you enjoy and you’re more than welcome to go and read through some of my other work on Vocal as well by clicking the link to my profile here: https://vocal.media/authors/ash-digest Smile Cause no-one cares about your pain Smile Cause you help others but people get… Continue reading
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Uni Creative Writing Task 3
Here is my third creative writing task that I had to do for uni where we had to make up three characters, where they could each only say a limited amount of words at a time and see what happened lol. Here is mine: THE MOVE: – character 1: the grandfather,… Continue reading
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Dear Old Me – WordPress writing prompt
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Hey River, Why haven’t we died yet? You’re freaking 100… just kidding that’s is FREAKING COOL THAT WE HAVE REACHED THAT AGE!!! Do we still go by River? Anyone else still alive from right now? Is Jesse? what have we accomplished? Where have we gone? Anything important we… Continue reading
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Agonising Reflections
He held a glass in his hand, it had a green tint that got darker towards the bottom of the glass. In the other hand, he held a pipe to his lips that had some smoldering herb in the bowl. Lowering the pipe, he exhaled a ring of smoke into the air as tears tried… Continue reading
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One Sentence Challenge
I just saw a challenge on tiktok to tell your life story in just one sentence, so here’s my attempt: The creature that was born with creative gifts is now recovering from burn out, blood and ashes – River/Ash Digest How’d I do? COPYRIGHT All novels and short stories on this blog are the works… Continue reading
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Abstract Wars
He drew in a broken breath as he clutched his sides, blood leaking between his fingers. His claws pierced through the fabric as he clutched at his shirt. His wings were covered in blood, guts and indescribable filth; a jagged claw marks were sliced across his wings, having penetrated to the other side. No doubt… Continue reading
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Stages of a Journey
So today’s one word prompt is “Imagine”, made myself tear up a little while writing this one, so hopefully that means it’s good *shrugs* hope you enjoy and have a great day/night! 🙂 ____________________________ Hey Stop a sec. You seem troubled, I have something that will help, if you like? Okay, great! Firstly, lift your… Continue reading
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Always
so today’s short piece is using the one word prompt “always”. Hope you enjoy 🙂 ______________________ Grandma always had food. There was no shame, no judgement. If you were hungry, eat Wanted seconds? Help yourself! Your hungry cause your body needs food, and you need to take care of your body and it’s needs…at least,… Continue reading
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Consumed at last
So I was looking at some word prompts cause again inspiration was hitting and today’s short piece is in response to the one word writing prompt “FREE”. I can’t remember where I found the list of one word writing prompts from, I just know I have it downloaded on my phone for when inspiration hits/when… Continue reading
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Dark Wounds
Today’s writing prompt is: BLOOM. This short story will include characters from my Zion trilogy, set some time after the trilogy has concluded of course 🙂 I have done a previous short skit with these characters after the trilogy, which you can read here: This will be set shortly after the ending of trilogy, where… Continue reading
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The Curse of Adulthood
Here is another one word prompt for today and today’s word is: Organize Ironic cause I am tidying and organizing my house today as well lmao! Anyway, hope you enjoy! This is going to just be me chatting about my day today cause today is the day of….✨organization ✨ I honestly hate that word –… Continue reading
About Me
I’m an Australian author and artist, self-published as a teenager. Fast food worker and a uni student. Love karaoke, clubbing, cosplay, makeup listening to ASMR, and photography. Genderfluid, mainly they/them pronouns, and bisexual. Also run a podcast called “The Little Book Corner by Ash Digest – Author” that’s available on Spotify and Anchor/Spotify for Podcasts
The Enchanted River in the Cryptid's Hollow 