ASHLEY SMITH
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Bio
England based carer, live with girlfriend. will write for all areas but especially mental health and disability. though as stuff for filthy seems popular will try there too
Stories (164/0)
Meatloaf
Legend is a title given to many people , in many walks of life. Many too easily and for too little. I think one criteria is that everybody knows who the person is and what they have done. I think meatloaf counts very defiantly as a legend. Unfortunately it can take a death to remind you of how much a person has done.
By ASHLEY SMITHabout a year ago in Beat
Its a real book, honest
I come from a time when schools focussed on the basics of maths and English. Focussing on writing and calculating before getting to much else. It makes sense, of course, because that is the start you need for all the other subjects that school try and fill you up with.
By ASHLEY SMITHabout a year ago in Confessions
Trying to write a top ten
One of my favourite djs, ironically on a talk station, often mentions writing a top hundred of his favourite songs . Then the plan was to make a play list, sounds like a good idea doesn't it? The answer depends on how important music is to you and how much of your life it inhabits.
By ASHLEY SMITHabout a year ago in Beat
the night owl
Working nights wasn't fun, it meant the same patients but a fraction of the staff. It didn't really help that the home was so remote, almost hidden away in a forest. The only upside was if you managed a break you could go outside and share it with the local wildlife.
By ASHLEY SMITHabout a year ago in Fiction
violent calm
With all the extra stress of the age the chance to escape in to a calm place is essential. A chance to block out the noise with your own noise, decide what's disturbing you. The difference for me is the louder and heavier it is the better it calms me.
By ASHLEY SMITHabout a year ago in Beat
starting over
I had kids young and so became a grown up early. Luckily got a well paid job and became normal and average. Going to work 5 or 6 days a week, earning good money but spending it all on grown up bills. Especially as my ex wife was allergic to paying bills.
By ASHLEY SMITHabout a year ago in Journal
Flash back to the crush
The tragic events of the deaths at the Astroworld concert. I have been at the front for many concerts over many years, this event brought flashbacks of the biggest and most tragic. It was when I was 18, although I am now 51 some days it seems very recent.
By ASHLEY SMITH2 years ago in Psyche
suicide is ......................
I write this as try and process a suicide of someone I know. I have had experience of losing people I know and also being involved as part of a job. Some cases appear almost spur of the moment and some appear to be a long build up. Some are random and some have planning, like the last person I knew.
By ASHLEY SMITH2 years ago in Psyche
Hit the lights
Bill knew how lucky to still have a job, with unemployment at 74% he was in a minority. His only worry was if anyone noticed how redic0usley easy it was. Obviously after the machines had risen to kill so many they couldn't be trusted to go back to the menial chores they had before.
By ASHLEY SMITH2 years ago in Fiction
Remember me in the meadow
Every time they had visited his mothers grave stone his wife had made him repeat the promise , the plan they had made many years before. That when one of them died that they should be cremated and their ashes scattered in the marigold meadow that was growing in the corner of the cemetery. They always sat on the bench looking at the beautiful colours during the spring and summer, always waiting for their return when the weather was harsh.
By ASHLEY SMITH2 years ago in Fiction
