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Niall Etheridge's avatar

Keep writing💯. I’m about 990 behind you. Watch your tail.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Gotta find more subscribers. The growth rate is disheartening. The material, time, sacrifice is there.

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Niall Etheridge's avatar

Preach.

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V Moire's avatar

That was epic. A 1000 on the ten scale. I felt it as a mother and teacher in a district of immigrants and refugees.

I wish my assistants who supplied the translation for parachute could read it, but I think it's too complex for their reading levels.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I trust you to give them the Vikki's Notes version

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Carol Angel's avatar

Jimmy, hope you are feeling like you have climbed a mountain and enjoyed the effort. I know we as your family have enjoyed the step by step with you. I always love your anthropomorphic aspect of every story. The humanity you delight in sharing. Love all of your complex adventures you give to our day in just a three minute read! Thank you ...

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thank you for being part of it Carol. You just made me a little teary eyed. And I'm in a punk bar in Hamtramck, Michigan,where people usually only cry when the fog machine goes overboard. ♥️

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Todd Wilkerson's avatar

As far as I’m concerned, your total output has finally matched your batting average. Another fantastic voyage into everyday life. Thank you.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks for the support over the years. I hope I can churn out more winners

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Chevanne Scordinsky's avatar

This was tense and vivid. As always, fantastic work.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks. I wrote it overlooking a park full of kids from Yemen and Bangladesh.

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Carol Angel's avatar

❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗

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Lisa Kuznak's avatar

Visceral, brutal, excellent. Well done, an awesome thousandth entry.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks. I felt it. I still do. Very happy that it translated to the page.

Please share the damn thing, will ya ?

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Patty Mallett's avatar

Once again, wow.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks. I hope I have hundreds more wows in me.

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Joe's avatar

What a roll. 1000 stories - and all originals.

That is really something!

#1000 is quite the heavy hitter.

Excellent job on it.

Anger, hatred, evil, mental.

Sometimes I want to throw up 'liking' an evil post, but that's the world we live in.

This was definitely a disturbing story of our time.

The attention to detail never ceases to amaze.

Here's to the next 1000!

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

It's an evil world. But you can accomplish good in it. I know you know that.

On to 1001

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Joe's avatar

Light always shines brightest in darkness.

As you well know, life is what you make of it.

Keep it up!

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

If life is what I make it I need to take some clay that looks like money 😎

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Joe's avatar

Well, I have read of an artist who traded $6 bills he drew for services.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Dafoe is brilliant as the artist/ counterfeiter in To Live and Die in LA

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Joe's avatar

I'll have to put that on my to watch list

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Carol Angel's avatar

Thanks, Joe

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George Brown's avatar

I love the milestone. Also got to say, I like the re-dedication to writing found at the bottom of the piece. Like that 1000% percent. Got to try and stay in the deep end. Don't I know it? I am writing 1000's of words a week right now. My muse is using me like a toy. I have a headache and a neckache and it's supposed to be my day off.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Writers never get a day off. The gears in the head are always turning. And when I type that I hear Steve Perry's voice. Ouch.

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Mike Grose's avatar

1000!!!

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

After Ripken broke the record what happened. Didn't he play the rest of the homestand then sit the first away game?

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scottyG's avatar

Wow, 1000 was a doozy. I usually read a few at a time, but I’m definitely gonna have to pause after that one and probably reread it a few times.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Hopefully it will be like chili: better the second day.

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Jeff Kinnard's avatar

Just found you and, man, where have you been?! This is the kind of short fiction I die for! This was such a riveting story and it took such a wild unexpected turn out of nowhere. Truly, a masterpiece. I can't wait to check out more.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks Jeff! I've been publishing on Substack since Aug 21 2020. Took a 6 day break with a brutal bout of COVID. That's it. Published every other day. Trying to get my paid subscribers up to a livable number especially now that my acting gigs are on hold due to the WGA strike.

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Jeff Kinnard's avatar

Wow that's inspiring! I just started a bit over a month ago, and my favorite part of Substack is finding obscure authors that are epic writers like yourself. I can't wait to see more from you.

Also I saw you subbed to me, you just happen to be my 30th subscriber! I am giving a free comped premium membership to my 30th, 50th and 100th subscriber. Congrats on being the first to win that!

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Holy Shit! Love that.

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Sketchplayuk's avatar

Nice article enjoyable read.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks

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