Ashley Christopher Leach

Originally from the Piedmont of North Carolina, I am a writer and performer living in New York. I have a BA in American and Black Studies from the College of William and Mary; an MA in Performance from Queen Mary, University of London; and an MA in Media Studies with a Concentration in Film from The New School. My short film Sandhill Boys (2010) debuted at the Slamdance International Film Festival, and my short experimental film Those People of the South (2013) was a finalist for the grand jury prize three years later. Additionally, my feature length film Annie was a finalist for the Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival, and my feature script Transition to Minor Burning was a quarter finalist for the 2017 Academy Nicholls Fellowship. Currently, I work in the film industry as a First Team Production Assistant or what I like to call "A Glorified Actor Babysitter."

Arthur’s Secret Show

Miss Beulah was not worried about a few dead feral cats, especially the ones that had lived for years in her woodpile before they met their sanguinary demise. She had discovered them gruesomely slaughtered with violent gashes to their necks just after a weak, late autumn hurricane had wreaked havoc on her yard and flooded her collard patch. Apart from believing that a bobcat had done the killing, her only real concern was removing the corpses from her yard. But a week later …
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