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Ashly Kim (she/her) is an over-caffeinated Philadelphian, poet, and weekend fishmonger. When not adventuring with her two kids, she enjoys eating tacos or finding new books for her literary hoard. And she's doing it all in black sweat pants.

Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the following literary magazines/journals: Peach Velvet Magazine, Stanchion, Royal Rose Mag, deathcap, Southchild Lit, perhappened mag, Wyrd & Wyse, Hungry Ghost Magazine, the tide rises, and lavendar bones magazine.

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His Fair Assassins!

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A Curse Carved in Bone (Saga of the Unfated, #2)

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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
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“Never laugh at live dragons.”
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“Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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“Tell me a story, Pew.

What kind of story, child?
A story with a happy ending.
There’s no such thing in all the world.
As a happy ending?
As an ending.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

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“Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

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