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Stephen Duffy's avatar

Great stuff, Daniel. "Honking" is another criminally underused word in literature 😆

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Daniel O’Donnell's avatar

Thanks very much Stephen 🙏😁

Aye. It’s good to be introducing all these Scottish colloquialisms to our readers 😆

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Nick Winney's avatar

absolutely hilarious. great fun! adds new meaning to "squid ring" eh?😉😆

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Daniel O’Donnell's avatar

Thanks very much Nick 🙏

Well, exactly 👍🏼😁

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Hanna Delaney's avatar

🤣 I almost held my breath the whole way through, thinking "oh no, what's it going to be?" Very good. I enjoyed that.

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Daniel O’Donnell's avatar

Thanks very much Hanna 🙏😁

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Daniel W. Davison's avatar

Great punchline to a very Lovecraftian tale! 😀

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Daniel O’Donnell's avatar

Thanks very much Daniel. I’m glad you liked it 🙏😁

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Alexander Ipfelkofer's avatar

Always check before approaching a porcelain bowl of doom... 😅 Hilarious, Dan!

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Daniel O’Donnell's avatar

Thanks very much Alexander 🙏😁

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Nathan Slake's avatar

This was fantastic Dan, what a great story. It trod the perfect line that moved between horror and humour.

PS sorry for being so slow getting to this. It's been a week for deadline after deadline and I just haven't made it to any Substack posts until today (just on my way home from work and settling into playing catch up and yours if the first post I've gotten to 🤗).

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Daniel O’Donnell's avatar

Thanks very much Nathan. I’m glad you liked it 🙏😁

I really appreciate you reading my stuff at any time, Nathan, so no worries on taking a few days to get to it 👍🏼

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Scott Roche - he/him's avatar

Oh, that was delightful!

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Daniel O’Donnell's avatar

Thanks very much Scott 🙏

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Scott Roche - he/him's avatar

My pleasure!

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Caz Hart's avatar

Needed the laugh. Excellent. 😁

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Daniel O’Donnell's avatar

Thanks very much Caz 🙏😁

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