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William Pauley III's avatar

This was better than a giant bucket of crispy bat wings! Loved it!

Happy Nielsen's avatar

This is my favorite midnight vault entry yet!! Pleasee write an entire novel about him

Alex S. Garcia's avatar

I would read that :D

Hanna Delaney's avatar

I have, and always will love your characterisation.

NJ Fiction's avatar

Bahaha!! This was fun

V Kelly-Sibley's avatar

As always, brilliant!

Bryan Pirolli's avatar

Just loved it. You very much understood the assignment and made it your own. What a perfect pairing with that image, too. I can't stop thinking about it! Thank you SO much for contributing to The Midnight Vault II.

Author Michele Bardsley's avatar

Thank you. I love the Midnight Vault. So happy to be part of it! Smoooooo he's!!!

Judith Ashcraft's avatar

Oh, this was so good. Really great story.

IanDMTaniels&HouseOfChapters's avatar

Scary picture!!!

do you write serialized fiction?

Edward.Marlo.Ruiz's avatar

Hell yeah

Garen Marie's avatar

I chuckled and then I got a bit misty. So much emotion and character here. Masterfully done.

Tamara Casey's avatar

Excellent 👍

The Faraday Room's avatar

Pleased to meet you. I really enjoyed the tone of this and the very satisfying ending.

Alex S. Garcia's avatar

Oh I did not expect this! Awesome idea, giving us the perspective of a demon. Not to mention humanizing him (to some extent). Loved it!

A.P. Murphy's avatar

Dark dark dark - enough to make even a demon like myself mist up a little.

!enjoyed it a lot, Michele!

Nice pic BTW

Nissa Harlow's avatar

Nice twist!

Nick Buchheit's avatar

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. This was such and enjoyable read! I love a good usurping of expectations when it comes to characters and situations and you threaded this beautiful with our little demon here. Great voice and comedic energy. I was chuckling through so many sentences! Fantastic work!