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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 10/08/2026

From the opening scene of "Good Bones" a murder mystery set in he south end of the Puget Sound, Washington. Dr Anna Jones and LCDR Brooke Morningstar were married in Canada in 2007 when Anna was 20 weeks pregnant with their IVF-conceived child, Riley.

AI-generated image depicting the owners’ suite of the Mill House Bed & Breakfast on Eld Island, Washington. Brooke Morningstar stands in a white U.S. Navy officer’s Dress White uniform with ribbons and insignia, carrying a black case and holding a cane, while her wife Anna smiles at her from beside the bed. A large text panel reproduces their playful exchange about Anna’s love of seeing Brooke in uniform. The warmly furnished room overlooks the water and evergreen-covered shoreline, with decorative coastal and lighthouse motifs framing the scene.
At the left side of the image is a body of text that reads:
MILL HOUSE BED & BREAKFAST
Owner's Suite * Eld Island, Washington

Brooke had donned her Dress Whites, strapped on her sword, adjusted her cover, made certain her medals were properly aligned, picked up the package on the bureau, and, tucking it into a satchel beneath her arm, paused a moment before grasping the cane she rarely needed these days, thinking that with all of the standing and walking she would likely be in need of it sooner rather than later, then headed downstairs to join her waiting wife.

"Damn, Lieutenant Commander Morningstar! I do love a woman in uniform!" her wife greeted her as she came into view.

Slightly blushing, Brooke smiled at Anna and replied, "Yeah, I know, it was the uniform that attracted you in the first place. Except that was a librarian uniform, and you didn't know I was a veteran yet. Let's go. I don't know how long I can stand to be in this thing before I start to rip it off, and that would scandalize the Yacht Club bunch."

"Mmm, do tell. But I may hold you to that later. Are we taking the bus, or just walking, since it's only a few blocks?"

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 08/04/2026

41k words into the rebuild. Prologue, Epilogue, & first 3 chapters complete. Sadly, those are the easy ones. Not much changed from the early versions of those. No one to blame but myself… well, & Loki. It’s always Loki’s fault. Just ask Thor. He’ll confirm. 🤭 Hush, Loki. You know I love you. 1/2

Screen capture of Scrivener corkboard showing project folders and files for the novel "Unseen", book one of the trilogy "The Dream That Carried Us" by Ashleigh Renée

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 11/03/2026

Seriously panicking. Somehow the final version of the novel that needs to go to Ingram by next week is missing. I am terrified that during the recent two weeks of insomnia and mental fog that in cleaning up the working and draft files I have deleted everything. #Unseen #booksky 1/2

Cover for the historical fiction novel Unseen by Ashleigh Renée.
A dark, smoke covered ske with the figure of a young girl running from the destruction behind her. Text above UNSEEN
test below in a black band “THE DREAM THAT CARRIED U(PART ONE)
Beneath the Ashleigh Renée

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 26/01/2026

Oh...we're going there, are we? 😇 🫖

My Little Pony with a caption "DO I HAVETO CUT A BITCH?

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 25/01/2026

of course, in my family, "plots" has a slightly different meaning. I'm married to a mortician. 😱

Chalkboard with the message "I meant to behave... but there were too many other options

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 25/01/2026

She the one in the East, I take care of the West. so, kinda sorta?

fingers wearing striped stockings and hand holding glass with iced beverage. caption “You know it’s been a good day, when I didn’t have to unleash the flying monkeys.”

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 08/01/2026

I have decided to follow you solely because of this thread. Merci beaucoup. Accents not applicable on my phone. But the thread made me want to share this snippet from a WIP.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 05/01/2026

Reason #8784794504561 why I may not immediately erspnd to people... memnapped from the Book of F@ces

white text on black background: Hey sorry it too me 6 days to get back to your text, I myself am undersaffed at the moment lol

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 13/12/2025

OMFG...it only took eight attempts, a capital letter, a lower case letter.a numeral and a special character... no, wait. Those are my password requirements... Unseen. Book One of The Dream That Carried Us. ISBN assigned, and pending processing. Tentative release date April 7, 2026.

Bowker screen cap of my -at long last- successful entry into the ISBN form, showing Unseen with an assigned ISBN.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 02/10/2025

Gee, This sounds familiar. Wonder where I heard this before? Oh, reich… I mean right. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Shows triangle marking system for prisoners in German concentration camps distinguished by form and colour of the marks. The table is divided into rows for basic prisoner colours (Grundfarben für Häftlinge), badges for reoffenders (Abzeichen für Rückfällige), prisoners in the punishment platoon (Häftlinge der Strafkompanie), badges for Jews (Abzeichen für Juden), and special marks (Besondere Abzeichen), as well as columns for various types of accusations: political prisoners (politisch), career criminals (Berufsverbrecher, [lit.: professional criminal]), emigrant(s), Jehovah's Witnesses (Bibelforscher [lit.: Bible researchers]), homosexuals (homosexuell), and antisocial persons (asozial). The special marks include "Jewish miscegenationists" (jüd[ische] Rasseschänder), female miscegenationists (Rasseschänderin), persons presenting a flight risk (fluchtverdächtigt), the prisoner's inmate ID number (Häftlingsnummer), identification of Polish and Czech prisoners (Pole, Tscheche) by a "P" or "T" in the triangle, Wehrmacht (German army) personnel (Wehrmacht Angehöriger) and celebrities (Häftling Ia). An example sleeve of a prisoner's dress is shown in the lower right section (Beispiel).
Jews were identified by an upright yellow triangle under the main classification triangle

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 01/10/2025

What we can soon expect if they continue. Memorial to the Nazi-era book burnings at the Bebelplatz in Berlin, Germany. Saint Hedwig's Cathedral is in the background) (Wikimedia image)

Memorial to the Nazi-era book burnings at the Bebelplatz in Berlin, Germany. Saint Hedwig's Cathedral is in the background)
By Kemmi.1 (Stefan Kemmerling) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95625825

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 21/07/2025

Tell me, #booksky - this isn't a sign that I have a book problem, is it? That isn't a ral thing, is it? Someone told me I have "too many books". I think they are the one with a problem. A literacy problem. Should I send them a reading 🌈?

screen capture of folders with book categories

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 17/07/2025

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

Book cover for The Afterlife Therapist by Stafford Betty

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 29/05/2025

In the words of Zig Zag Claybourne ... (and that being his hand, holding the button)

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 24/05/2025

I've grown rather fond of Medusa's Revenge over the past few years, but your choice is good as well.

Statue of Medusz holding the head of Perseus. "Medusa's Revenge"

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 22/05/2025

ouch. That burns. via tumblr with the notation -- "When that One-shot you were writing turns into a saga." #amwriting #NowBeginningPart5of3 #queerwriters #booksky

person with cuyrl hair, head propped up by hands over a keyboard. text above head "I FUCKED UP."

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 05/05/2025

Best wishes for speedy recovery and that it’s nothing serious. Maybe just needs a frog in his mouth?

photo from the movie “The Wicker Man” (1973) a woman is holding a frog to place it in the mouth of a young girl to cure her sore throat.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 29/04/2025

That's our Willie (rescue cat) - and his shelter name. It fits him. We got him and his cage-mate, Waylon (or as I think of it Wail-on) at the same time. Willie and Waylon. Here's Waylon.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 27/04/2025

#AprilWorldbuilders #WritingCommunity Day 27 From "Unseen", Part one of "The Dream that Carried Us" (forthcoming).

@AprilWorldBuilders hosted by Kira of the Wind (writing prompts)

Text: First Woman (softly): "You’re one of us now. Stay quiet. Stay hidden. We will protect you."
The girl’s wide, haunted eyes blinked once in understanding.
Outside, the Romani camp burned, flames licking the sky.
Above the smoke, the waxing gibbous moon rose at 9:29 pm, indifferent and cold, casting a ghostly silver sheen over the camp.
Inside, in the terrible silence that followed, a child lived.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 20/04/2025

The #WIPSnips word for April 20 is "smoke" From "Unseen", part one of "The Dreams That Carried Us." #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

text" copyright 2025 Siobhan McNorry
October 8, 1944 – The Day After
The smoke lingered longer than anyone expected.
By the time the sirens stopped, the yard had emptied. All day, the barracks remained locked down. No work detail. No soup. No roll call. Just silence and smoke, and the gnawing ache of knowing something irreversible had happened.
The women in Block 15 sat still, their movements small and cautious. No one wept. Not openly. Grief was too dangerous. But Anastazja could see it settle into the corners of the room—behind Rachel’s clenched jaw, in the way Rivka twisted the ends of her kerchief until the fabric frayed.
“What did they think would come of it?” Leah muttered under her breath. “It’s madness. Brave, maybe. But madness all the same.”
“They knew,” Miriam said, her voice nearly inaudible. “They knew they wouldn’t survive.”
“But still,” Rivka whispered. “They did it.”
She looked toward the sky, though the view was only slats and gray. “They fought back. They made the ground burn.”
No one spoke for a long time.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 17/04/2025

While I have much more to say related to this topic (which was the subject of my aforementioned multi-part post that was lost), for now, I’ll share my own Prayer of Remembrance, based upon the original by Rabbis Jonathan Wittenberg and Lionel Blue. Apologies for the font color I forgot to change it.

El Malei Rachamim
Prayer for the Victims of the Holocaust
Based on the original by Rabbis Jonathan Wittenberg and Lionel Blue
Compassionate Presence,
dwelling beyond and within all worlds,
grant perfect rest beneath the sheltering wings of eternity
to the souls of the millions
who were murdered and silenced—
Jews, Roma, the disabled, the queer,
and all those deemed “undesirable” by hatred—
in the Shoah, the Holocaust.
May they be held in tenderness,
in the embrace of the Eternal Mystery,
the One who remembers even when we forget,
who weeps for every life stolen.
Source of Mercy,
bring healing to the generations that follow.
Let memory become a flame of justice
and a light against the darkness.
May their lives not be lost in vain,
but call us always
to compassion, vigilance, and peace.
Let their souls be bound up
in the bond of life everlasting.
May they rest in dignity and rise in glory.
Let memory be our defiance.
Na bister.
Blessed be the queer dead.
— Ashleigh Mitchell, April 2025

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 17/04/2025

New icon - Zig Zag (ZZ) Claybourne’s hand holding his “Despite everything, create.” button from the Coppertop Writer’s Weekend, 2018; cover image a distant view of Mount Fuji seen through cherry blossoms. It reminds me of a similar image I took of Mount Rainier some years ago that I can’t locate.

Zig Zag Claybourne holding his button reading “Despite everything, create.” Taken at the Coppertop Writer’s Weekend, New Hampshire, 2018. Personal photograph.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 14/03/2025

Current user pic is swag from #LeftCoastCrime2024 - Seattle Shakedown courtesy of @bookpipeline.bsky.social with thanks! I had hoped to be at #LeftCoastCrime2025 - Rocky Mountain High Jinks this week, but my bills held me hostage, demanding payment. @sincnational.bsky.social @lcc2025

A ceramic mug with black text reading “your story has only begun.” With a line drawing of an open book with blank pages beneath the text.

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