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Nick Winney's avatar

awww thanks everyone! it gives me the best feeling to hear you rate what I write. 🙏

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Keith Long's avatar

Damn - I dunno how you do it, but you do it, every time. So so good.

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Nick Winney's avatar

thanks keith! i found a little spot for you at last....

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

This is fantastic work Nick. It really is. Don't sell yourself short.

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Nick Winney's avatar

Huge thanks Emil. Im inspired by 9 story hotel, by Edith, by you, Andy... just so many great minds and wordsmith and you've all made me feel like i belong.

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Edith Bow's avatar

THIS. So fuckin' good. I am on time constraints or I would write a novel of passion from what the fuck I just read. I loved every bit of it. The Story. The world building. You got me. That was so incredibly well done. I definitely FELT like I was there. The story has feeling, emotions that move you. Loved it. So so so good. DAMN.

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Nick Winney's avatar

totally touched with the praise. means a lot to me. really does. the most. thank you !!!

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Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

Superb stuff!

Except I think you are very cruel not telling us what Klong said. That's going to bug me, that is. You do know that, right?

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Nick Winney's avatar

That is a very good question Evelyn... maybe another chapter in there but it didnt cross.my.mind at the time

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Andy Futuro's avatar

This was like a shovel to the skull! Whabbam. Love it.

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Nick Winney's avatar

Glad you liked it Andy - its cur from the same sort of cloth as some of your stuff. Ive kind of got a paranormal crime family world building in my brain after this. I did a micro on "Shovel" a few months back....and came up with "The Shovel" - crime boss who eats his victims, and the stream of consciousness prompt made me think of a gypsy that speaks to the dead....to make sure you really did kill them...and I linked the two together - so now I got the cannibal crime boss, and the gypsy that really speaks to the dead.... pretty sure there's more in here.... and Mr Azurro "Blue" Nardini whilst a totally derivative gangster trope, he could survive the arsenic, or he could come back a ghost....who knows...

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Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

It's definitely got legs

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