Ashbury Stories

Samantha's family is dead. They've been taken by the Spirit Stealers, an evil group of dead spirits managed by the Head Spirit Stealer. Seven years later, Sam wants to find out everything she can about the attic where her family died, and kill off the Head Spirit Stealer. But the journey is hard. Looking for the one thing that will kill him puts her life in danger. She can still go back... But what would you do? Save your family you've been missing for seven years, or give up and live a normal life?

This story is about my 2 friends named Wisely x Ann. This is a fan fiction for them!

In 1967, two friends Annie and Andy run away from their suburb in Arizona to Haight-Ashbury in California to join the hippie scene. They meet incredible people who share their interests and similar feelings, while under the influence of music, art, and psychedelic drugs. However, after the Summer of Love, reality starts to kick in and everyone at the apartment begins to realize what is going in the US. These group of friends experience life from a certain perspective, and come to terms with their demons.

January 1, 1995. Colin Ashbury screamed at the top of his lungs on the roof of his home, "LIFE IS AMAZING DON'T EVER REGRET IT." The day after, his body was found floating on the water underneath the London Bridge by 3 year old American tourist Summer Reed. Ten years later, in 2005, a box with no return label is delivered to Summer Reed in Los Angeles, California. She opens the box only to find items and a written set of riddles leading to a boy named Colin Ashbury whom she has no clue of. An aspiring journalist and detective prodigy, she sets out for the truth behind a hidden memory.

Murders, mystery and marijuana in present day San Francisco, with ties to the Haight-Ashbury past. Financial ruin threatens longtime stoner and historian-turned-journalist Ed Rosenberg. He and his wife, Julie, victims of newspapers’ decline, have just been fired from the San Francisco Foghorn. Scrambling for work, Ed lands a gig researching the hippie Haight-Ashbury for a museum exhibit sponsored by a tech billionaire whose birth mother was a small-time marijuana dealer shot to death in Golden Gate Park in 1968, a killing never solved. Meanwhile, Julie is hired as media liaison for mayoral candidate Dave Kirsch, a former pot dealer and author of best-selling guides to growing weed. Then Kirsch is murdered in Golden Gate Park. His death costs Julie her job and returns the couple to the brink of financial disaster. Ed’s research about the hippie Haight-Ashbury’s tie-dyed past vividly illuminates that era. The derivation of “psychedelic”? How the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane got their names? All that and more in Killer Weed. Ed’s investigation also introduces him to a rogue’s gallery of characters—a hairdresser, florist, laundromat operator, and real estate mogul— who, he realizes, may have been involved in the ex-dealer’s murder. Then someone starts shooting at him. The pages turn quickly and San Francisco—both then and now— comes alive. Killer Weed features remarkably true-to-life characters, and a compelling, nuanced portrait of a marriage under duress. Their careers upended, Ed and Julie feel anxious and stressed—and both use drugs to cope. He smokes more weed, which she doesn’t like, and she drinks more alcohol, which he can’t stand. Will the marriage survive?