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Asteria Geisterblum's avatar

Spencer, I’m saying this with the least amount of pressure and barely any threatening quality, but I’ve decided you’ll get your own bookshelf rather than your own section in a bookshelf so with that, I also decided you’ll have to publish enough books to fill said bookshelf. Easy peasy.

Your talent for horror is just through the roof and half my substack screentime is literally your writing.

This post here is no difference, I’ll be coming back to read this multiple times. Wish my CPTSD would give me some worse memory issues than I usually have, so I can read it again with a fresh pair of eyes

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Gil Nobodi's avatar

I don't even know where to start with this. I am not blowing smoke when I say this was masterful. Tone, word choice, pacing, twists, everything. I couldn't add or take a single thing from this without robbing it of it's putrid eldritch soul. I felt this physically and emotional and the horror only grew exponentially as things developed.

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Theodore Brightly's avatar

Well wasn't that just horrible. In the best possible way of course. I loved your descriptions and how Desmond felt throughout, really felt like he was pushed over the edge by this 'emergence'. Great story, almost leaves me wanting more.

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S_arch's avatar

I love how there's a play button so ai can read this bc when i read smth i instantly get bored if the story doesn't seem interesting but with someone else doing the work for me? It js gives me this excitement for some reason 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Haunter S. Tombstone's avatar

I really liked it 👍

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Eerie and vile, just the way I like it.

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Liz Zimmers's avatar

Aaagh! Aaagh! I can’t form words, only screams of horror! Poor, poor Private Desmond…his experience was horrifying, cruel, and viscerally repugnant. You captured it to perfection!

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TROTTERHEAD's avatar

Your bio says body horror and yet the yuck still shocked me... In that way, a great intro to your writing for a new reader (me)

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William Pauley III's avatar

Just brutal. Excellent and disturbing. Had me squirming to the very end. 👏

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Nick Winney's avatar

That's skin-crawlingly great! the image of the things erupting is burning behind my eyelids. superb stuff! we demand more!

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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

This was delightfully terrifying. Love the ending, love the cycle.

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Keith Long's avatar

Groossssss. Well done

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A.D. Powers's avatar

I lovee the last line. So, so haunting.

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Garen Marie's avatar

I could feel Desmond’s desperation and terror. The room felt claustrophobic, suffocating. Visceral, impactful words.

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A. C. Sanders's avatar

😱 My skin is crawling with chills! The powerless of his situation was so well done! One of those stories where I felt I was the character and that made it all the more horrific!

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Happy Nielsen's avatar

Honestly I don’t know I insist on reading your writing. I have only myself to blame. Brb while I go claw my brain out along with my eyes

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Spencer D.W.'s avatar

while this is undoubtedly my goal. I feel like I'm scaring you permanently at this point haha.

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Happy Nielsen's avatar

I think you might be right 😅 but I wouldn’t have it any other way 💚

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