Vaughn Ashby's Blog, page 3
November 14, 2021
All Your Lives Belong to Us (Part 7)
Imani is left picking up the piece of the aftermath from the failed Nick experiment, while Nick himself continues to wonder if he’s in a videogame.
Welcome to ‘All Your Lives Belong to Us’ a ten-part Horror Audiobook Series.
Grab a copy of the eBook or Paperback here… mybook.to/AllYourLives
All Your Lives Belong to Us (Part 6)
Everything has side effects, drift being Faraday’s penance for helping his friend. A late-night sushi run-in for someone else is much worse.
Welcome to ‘All Your Lives Belong to Us’ a ten-part Horror Audiobook Series.
Grab a copy of the eBook or Paperback here… mybook.to/AllYourLives
All Your Lives Belong to Us (Part 5)
Gabby attends her first Aurora Wasteland convention where she meets a wasteland vet and makes a new friend.
Welcome to ‘All Your Lives Belong to Us’ a ten-part Horror Audiobook Series.
Grab a copy of the eBook or Paperback here… mybook.to/AllYourLives
Keep Your Eyes on the Pie
A flash fiction inspired by the below Instagram image.
Some places in The Aurora Wasteland are terrifying, others are soul-altering, and a very select few are both of those, but also delicious. The Desperation Diner nestled down in the Alberta Badlands is by all accounts one of those magical trifecta locations. There is only one small catch, for some statistical painstaking outlier reason, the Desperation diner has the highest death count in The Wa...
November 7, 2021
Vigil For The Green
A flash fiction inspired by the below Instagram image.
Every small town in Canada has a monument dedicated to the lives lost during either the first or second world war. If the town was lucky it only lost men to one of the wars. If they were unlucky, like the town of Nanton Alberta, then they lost men in both. Normally, on Remembrance Day, these monuments become home to ceremonies and vigils, events designed to remember the past. But what if the pa...
October 23, 2021
Escalator to Nowhere
A flash fiction inspired by the below Instagram image.
We all have windows of time in our lives where The Mall is our second home. When we’re young it’s one of the first places you can go on your own and feel safe. The mall, is what transitions youths into Youths. Day after day, trip after trip, time at the mall is spent exploring yourself, what you want to be, and who you’ll become. For others, it’s spent exploring something much more… well you’ll...
October 17, 2021
Mannequin Forest
A flash fiction inspired by the below Instagram image.
There are only a few ways to cross the Canadian Rocky Mountains from east to west. Even fewer are open in the winter. Highway five, or as it’s better known as ‘The Yellowhead’ is one of those crossings. At certain times of the year as the snowfall thickens a lot of the services along the highway are closed. Which always leads to the inevitable question, where do you stop to pee? To which the re...
October 10, 2021
The Dead at Your Icy Feet
A flash fiction inspired by the below Instagram image.
Lake Athabasca is the largest body of water in the province of Alberta and the second deepest after the Brightness Falls lake. Originally when first discovered by explorers from Europe the lake was found to have gold deposits along the north shore. Mines and settlements were settled by those hoping to find their fortune in the waters. After an unknown incident, all mines for the lake were aband...
October 2, 2021
The Laughing Tree
A flash fiction inspired by the below Instagram image. (Link to the original post on Instagram by melnukoff)
Normally, decorated trees are saved for Christmas. The Laughing Tree is the exception to that. Prior to Halloween every year the Laughing Tree is spotted in the woods in Waterton Nation park. Legend has it that the Laughing Tree adds one new ornament per year. While normally such ornaments would scream in pain, this tree serves up somethin...
June 17, 2021
Sighting of the Man They Call Smith
This is a censored post related to the novel ENTANGLEMENT by Vaughn Ashby.
If you want to learn more about how this post relates to the Aurora Wasteland you’ll just have to read the book. Oh look here is a conveniently located link to where you can buy the book…
VaughnAshby.com/Entanglement
