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Aug 30Liked by c.d. mudge

I agree with Tracey’s comment. I felt a myriad of emotions reading this.

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Aug 30Liked by c.d. mudge

I feel like the goal of every writer is to seek a visceral sort of response from your reader!

Congratulations you have achieved exactly that!! Ewwwwwww lmao

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Ewwwwww, indeed! Thanks, CeeCee!

It is admittedly the "lowest" form of horror writing but I'd like to think that I was at least somewhat successful in evoking what Stephen King lovingly refers to as "the gross out" with this one.

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Reminds me of the song "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

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Holy shit, no kidding! Gave this a listen and the similarity of the imagery is uncanny. Plus, now I've added a great new bop to the playlist. Thanks, Bradley!

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Aug 31·edited Aug 31Liked by c.d. mudge

Glad to hear tha... hork-hork-hack...

As she strove to breathe while retching like her favorite feline struggling to bring forth a tennis ball-sized hairball, she eventually brought forth an impressive serving of lung butter directly onto the awaiting crispy toast.

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Ewwwww lol

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Just for you. Enjoy with your breakfast.

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Aug 31·edited Aug 31Liked by c.d. mudge

For having opened this at all, given the title, is the first bravery we readers have displayed. For persevering in the reading despite the uneasy feeling in my stomach is bravery #2. For having gotten through all of it in a sort of grotesque fascination to see what might hatch out of those jars or happen next is the third and final courageous act. So, for all our intestinal fortitude, I'm not sure I want to know what these things ultimately are, or whether I want to euthanize ol' Hiram then burn that house in order to put us out of our misery! Barftastic piece. Or as Tracey put it more eloquently, "Ewwwwwwww"!

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Aug 31·edited Aug 31Author

This is easily one of my all-time favourite comments!

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