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Saint-Lazare's avatar

It took me some time to finally got to this in my saved posts, but boy it didn't disappoint. I love everything with demons and that was an absolute enjoyable ride. Bravo!

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

I appreciate you taking the time to read :) I’m very glad you enjoyed it 🙏🤧

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Annieguile Bentulan's avatar

You’ve got serious Hereditary-meets-The Exorcist energy here, with just enough poetic grime to make it crawl under the skin and stay there. I freakin loved it!!! The dread builds like a pressure cooker baptized in smoke and sin. That ending? Pure, apocalyptic rot. I’ll be haunted by ‘Putrescera’ and that demon’s smile for days. Actual. SHIVERS.

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

You’re really the best, thank YOU. 😭🙏🤧 for just reading alone. The Exorcist and Hereditary are some of my favorites of all time. I’m so glad this piece invoked those vibes. Very much appreciated.

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Drew Valdez's avatar

Beautifully gross! Just how I like my coffee!

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

Glad you found it beautiful! 🕳️🙌

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Drew Valdez's avatar

For sure! Since I had the pleasure of reading one of yours I’ll share my favorite gross story! I have some more extreme ones in the works, but my next couple of releases are going to be around some prompts, so they’re not quite as extreme.

https://open.substack.com/pub/dvwrites123/p/occupied-a-bathroom-horror-story?r=5awwk0&utm_medium=ios

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

Haha that’s funny. I had saved that one for reading. Thanks for sharing. Definitely going to check out your work 🙏

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Dylan Bosworth's avatar

Nice work. The image of the demon came through crystal clear, well before I saw the reference picture at the bottom.

It's hard to make demons scary and you did an awesome job. I like the little pieces that add in moments of terror to layer over the already building tension. Like when there is no sound.

Tight

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

Just wanted to say an extra thanks for letting me know the image I made stood out! I didn’t want you guys to be influenced by the inspiration until after you read.

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Dylan Bosworth's avatar

It was perfect coming in at the end like that. Let my own image breathe and then coalesce with your inspiration. Worked great

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

Yooo I’m so glad you got to it and read. Thank you so much for the extra comment. So dope to hear your thoughts. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Asteria Geisterblum's avatar

This had me in a chokehold, wow. You know whenever I read your writing, the reader in me gets impatient. Because I want to take a pen and underline things and scribble in the margins but I suppose I have to be patient with that for now.

This was once again an absolute joy to read, and I think I slowly riddled out why your writing just hits the best spots: it’s the same tone and feeling I get when I listen to Adam Jensen and I love his music.

Your writing carries the same gritty, moody, emotionally raw tone like his songs. You’ve got the distorted layers and the subtle “there’s something intense under this surface here but wait until we get to that” tone.

Love it!

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

Wow what a comment 🥲 I literally cannot say thank you enough. Your support is so amazing to see. Thank you, thank you for real. 🙏 What a way to describe my writing. I feel honored. (Do not listen to Adam Jensen but I’ll take it.)

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Gillian Fletcher's avatar

How can such beautiful words make me feel so uneasy? Great work!

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

Blessed! Thank you for reading 🙏🙌

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Maryellen Brady 💗📚's avatar

You had me holding my breath & reading so fast....omgosh. the details, you are so flipping descriptive. The world went silent as I read this...so good.

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Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

Ahh thank you for the constant support. You’re amazing! 🙌 I’m glad it felt like that. A rush

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