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Rosie B's avatar

This was excellent! Really cool use of the chat format. The rising panic was palpable. Great read!

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Nick Buchheit's avatar

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the format. Took me more than a minute to figure out how to get it to work on Substack but I think it turned out alright.

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Bradley Ramsey's avatar

Wow! This was phenomenal, Nick! I love the structure and the way you captured the pure chaos of comments in apps/forums was superb. I loved the slow descent into chaos as well. The pacing was exquisite and had me on the edge of my seat the entire time.

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Nick Buchheit's avatar

Those are very kind words, Bradley. Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it and that it hit all the right spots!! It was a labor of love. Haha. Oathbreaker is on my next read list.

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Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

That's a very cool found footage end of the world thing. Or Event Day, even.

Loved it.

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Nick Buchheit's avatar

Thank you, Evelyn!! So happy to hear you loved it! Hopefully we never experience it.

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R. M. Greta's avatar

I started spiraling while reading this. So good! Loved the different voices and attitudes.

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Nick Buchheit's avatar

I hope you recovered! Thank you!

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Joseph Young's avatar

War of the Worldsian?

Cool format for a horror story. The different voices!

Good work, Nick. I enjoyed.

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Nick Buchheit's avatar

Thank you, Joseph!! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it. Means a lot.

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