Biography Ashley is currently passionate about trying to get out of bed and get that college degree! As a kid she moved around Washington quite a bit but eventually graduated from Ellensburg High School in 2016. She grew up riding horses and dealing with all sorts of animals, breaking bones in the process, as most […]
Dreams and Concept Maps
I have been oh-so patiently waiting to hear back from my university of choice about whether they will decide if I’m worthy enough to pay them thousands of dollars a year. Okay, technically my scholarship will, but you get what I mean. I feel like a vassal waiting to hear if they have the honor […]
The Birth of Snippets
As a kid, I was obsessed with reading, I would read all the time at any chance I could get. I had this little plywood bookcase with four shelves and I tried so hard to fill it up with books. My parents didn’t really buy me many things growing up and I didn’t get an […]
Strange Dream
While researching places to submit my writings I came across this magazine, Mask Magazine, who has submissions open currently for their dream issue. My pieces don’t fit this theme, but it got my brain turning. They said something about how dreams can parallel the real world, “anything that evades the slender confines of reason,” and […]
I Want to Break Shit
The sun was blazing hot, the sand and rocks were unbearable to stand on. It was an August day in the Mediterranean. My friend Jasmine and I decided to cool off in the sea. From the previous day I knew the water was quite chilly and salty. When I dried the day before there were […]
Ways I See Myself
Today I wanted to give insight on how I see myself. There are only two aspects I am going to talk about because I’m sure telling you all of them would be boring and I have to keep the mystery alive somehow! The first one is a bit more on the good side in my […]
Let the Good Times Roll!
This summer, I traveled the whole time. I left the week school ended and came back two weeks before school started back up. When I got back I was exhausted, it was my first time on the road for three months. I jumped right back into the swing of things; I started working and picked […]
First Few Months
It was naїve of me to think that I could juggle everything going on in the new phase of my life. I knew that moving into my parents house was going to be hard, it was harder than I expected. When I start thinking that I’m hot shit I remind myself that I live in […]
The Big Move Back
“I have something to tell you Mom. I’ve been nervous to tell you …I’ve waited a whole month just to make sure. Essentially, I’m vegan.” “Oh my god, I thought you were going to say you’re pregnant.” I looked out the window at the classic rainy night sky as we left the Sea-Tac Airport thinking […]
Nostalgia is a Friend
I was a few days from finishing fifth grade. I was in a new school I started that year after moving. Unfortunately, I had already moved houses again so I was starting sixth grade in another new school that fall. The sun was baking hot tinting my face red as I would run up the […]
Moving to Maui
At eighteen I was really unsure of what I was going to be doing with my hot off the press adult self and I was really feeling the pressure to choose. To keep it simple, my mom wanted me to go to college and my dad wanted me to go into the military; I had […]
Ashley Grace 