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Ashley Blooms

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Ashley Blooms is the author of Every Bone a Prayer, which was long-listed for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize and which NPR said “bears within its pages striking beauty and strangeness in equal measure.” Her second novel, Where I Can’t Follow, will be published in February 2022.

Born and raised in Cutshin, Kentucky, Blooms received her MFA as a John and Renee Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi. Her short stories have appeared in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons, among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Oxford American. She’s been awarded scholarships from the Clarion Writer’s Workshop and Appalachian Writer’s Workshop, served as fiction editor for the Yalobusha Review, ...more

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Average rating: 3.51 · 3,203 ratings · 627 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Every Bone a Prayer 3.50 avg rating — 2,073 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where I Can't Follow 3.49 avg rating — 936 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2018 by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew Hughes (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Corey Flintoff (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2020 (F&SF, #751) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Leah Cypess (Goodreads Author), David Gerrold (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shimmer 2017: The Collected Stories by E. Catherine Tobler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Beth Wodzinski (Edition Editor), L.M. Davenport (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shimmer Magazine 37 by E. Catherine Tobler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ashley Blooms (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Charles Payseur (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Where I Can’t Follow: A Novel by Ashley Blooms (Goodreads Author), Julia Atwood (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A weight grew in the air between Misty’s mother and her sisters, a weight that Misty couldn’t quite understand. So much of growing up was that way. A feeling in a room that she’d just walked into. A feeling hanging between two people that she loved. A sense of something gone slightly wrong, but when she asked, no one would tell her the truth. And that was where childhood lay, in the shadow of knowing that something was wrong but not knowing what it was or why it was or how to fix it, so she was left standing in front of her mother, her mother tired and bleeding, her mother with a ragged hole chewed through her chest, her mother saying, “It’s fine. Everything is fine.”
― Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

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“That’s why we tell stories,” Aunt Jem said. “To remind us there’s another way. A better way. We tell stories so we can find it.”
― Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

tags: storytelling, storytelling-quotes, writing, writing-quotes

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“Now open up your heart. It's more listening than saying anything, but you can ask for things too. You open up and wait for God to speak to you. Close your eyes now. Close your eyes." So Misty listened to her mother and she listened for God--her chest a door flung wide open; her heart the golden light spilling onto the floor, eating darkness whole. She invited everything inside.”
― Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

tags: prayer, spirituality

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