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Aug 8, 2024 | 
southwestreview.com | Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
I feel like I’m getting sick. The cotton’s been picked but the stalks ain’t been cut. They stick up from the cold mud, jagged. Mama has diabetes. Sister’s got a rare form of arthritis in her fingers. Aunt Nell has cataracts, she’s always reminding us how one day she won’t be able to see. So I’m making us a big pot of ginger soup to eat tonight. Something to build our immunity. I was not raised this way.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
sw.co.uk | Hayley Evans |Ashleigh Bryant Phillips |Mark Sheridan |Ian Vivian
Commercial agent Mark Slade has joined Sanderson Weatherall to grow the firm’s agency services in the South West. Mark joins the firm with 25 years’ experience working as a commercial agent in the region’s property market. Ashleigh Phillips, head of Sanderson Weatherall Plymouth said, “Mark’s appointment is another significant milestone in growing the Sanderson Weatherall Plymouth office.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
joylandmagazine.com | Evan Gray |Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Preston was taking me home after school because he could drive and I couldn’t. We got behind this loud, black Silverado. “God, Judd Davis’ truck is so nice,” Preston said. I looked and everything on it was black: black headlight covers, black running boards, black wheels, black bedliner. Black. It had a black and white sticker that took up the entire glass. The pointer, the middle, and the pinkie finger were sticking out. “What’s that sticker mean?” I asked. “The shocker.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
joylandmagazine.com | Evan Gray |Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Preston was taking me home after school because he could drive and I couldn’t. We got behind this loud, black Silverado. “God, Judd Davis’s truck is so nice,” Preston said. I looked and everything on it was black: black headlight covers, black running boards, black wheels, black bedliner. Black. It had a black and white sticker that took up the entire glass. The pointer, the middle, and the pinkie finger were sticking out. “What’s that sticker mean?” I asked. “The shocker.
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May 13, 2024 | 
sw.co.uk | Hayley Evans |Ashleigh Bryant Phillips |Christian Humphreys |Ben Bushill
Plymouth Law Society is pleased to announce that Sanderson Weatherall has become its official property partner. Sanderson Weatherall is a leading SME in the UK property industry and its national team of some 200 people strive to help businesses thrive by delivering first class property advice and solutions. The Plymouth office has a talented team of surveyors who have decades of experience in the local commercial property market across all the main disciplines.
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May 6, 2024 | 
strangematters.coop | Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
There was nothing waiting for me on the other side of my MFA in fiction. So I moved back home and started selling insurance. That’s how I found myself in Lauren’s living room, watching The Real Housewives of New York. It makes me angry. All that money and privilege. None of them ladies have ever heard of my town and they never will. Why would they? But it’s Lauren’s favorite show. And Lauren’s one of the only other girls to go away to college and come back home too.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
joylandmagazine.com | Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
He used to make me do this voice. He’d say please baby do the voice. And at the beginning I would do it every time he asked. I’d come up with something off the top of my head and say it out loud and then he’d laugh and I’d laugh too. Once I used the voice to say “Jim and I knew the divorce would ruin her.” Neither of us knew a Jim. And there wasn’t a divorce or somebody to ruin. But when I did the voice I plucked words from the sky and what came out of my mouth after that wasn’t up to me.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
joylandmagazine.com | Bobbie Lanham |Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
At a small table in the Mexican restaurant the three of them continued to argue the merits of their list of the ten greatest American novels. The conversation had been repeated since graduate school. But now the past and everything back in Kentucky was a shadow. The woman insisted on Melville over Hawthorne. “What do you mean, not include Moby Dick?” she scolded the two men. “How can you leave it out every time?
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
sw.co.uk | Ashleigh Bryant Phillips |David Rastrick |Megan Graham |Richard Dunn
We have added to our newly established Plymouth team with the appointment of Louise Rymel, who joins our firm’s valuation department as Associate Partner. Louise, who is an RICS Registered Valuer, brings over 10 years of experience with her, including six years working as a specialist asset valuer at local authorities in the south west and the Midlands.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
joylandmagazine.com | Joshua Vigil |Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Ever been to a gay bar? said the older man. He was slumped in a chair. We were in the waiting room, the aesthetician. There was a lone lobster in a fish tank beside us, bubbling. He nodded towards it. Can’t tell if you’re the type, he said. Or too much of a prude? Before I could respond, he waved this comment away, meaty palm quartering the air. Gay bars are like lobster tanks, he said, only without the rubber bands. How’s that? Without the rubber bands, they cannibalize each other. Don’t you know?
