Drawing Attention with Ashley Story

I was a teenage missionary

and other confessions that keep me up at night.

Jul 13 • 

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I was a teenage missionary

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May 2025

"God Will Wreck Your Life to Get Your Heart" (And Other Lies I Used to Believe)

A storm-hider's guide to religious recovery

May 25 • 

Ash Parsons Story

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"God Will Wreck Your Life to Get Your Heart" (And Other Lies I Used to Believe)

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April 2025

You Don’t Have to Go to Clown College

on impostor syndrome, publishing, and the breath beneath the dream

Apr 22 • 

Ash Parsons Story

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You Don’t Have to Go to Clown College

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Fourteen Years and Some Change

Apr 14 • 

Ash Parsons Story

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Fourteen Years and Some Change

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March 2025

I spy with my little eye…

Something that rhymes with fartsnake.

Mar 30 • 

Ash Story

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I spy with my little eye…

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February 2025

This might not save the world...

But it will keep me sane while America takes it up the butt, and that's at least something.

Feb 14 • 

Ash Story

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December 2024

Hot Showers and Heart Pills and Gay Sex, and Christmas

These are a few of my favorite things...

Dec 22, 2024 • 

Ash Story

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Hot Showers and Heart Pills and Gay Sex, and Christmas

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Hooked into the Cheek of a Memory

After Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo.

Dec 15, 2024 • 

Ash Story

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November 2024

It’s in Dog’s Hands Now.

My wife watched the local animal shelter website the way I watch Zillow; pornographically scanning and imagining “what if” about something that is…

Nov 30, 2024 • 

Ash Story

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It’s in Dog’s Hands Now.

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October 2024

Grief and Other Winged Things

I saw a dead bird this weekend.

Oct 27, 2024 • 

Ash Story

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June 2024

The World's Shortest Pride Parade

I was catching rainbows for decades before I came out.

Jun 30, 2024 • 

Ash Story

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Terrible/Beautiful life not for sale.

Last week I was on social media scrolling through the literal rubble on my feed; bodies and fire and mothers and babies losing their lives, when I came…

Jun 4, 2024 • 

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