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Sean King
@seanking
Bio
Sean is the pen name of 35 chimpanzees with typewriters.
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Sean's Stories
A song at the end of the tunnel
I was on my way to the shop when I first heard a high, eerie, beautiful sound. At first I thought it was a bird, then an instrument. As the sound developed into a tune, I realized it was a voice. I was frozen in my tracks on the sidewalk. I couldn’t do anything but listen.
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The Killer App
It had taken years of work, over a decade of evenings and weekends and spare hours. His attic studio was littered with failures, attempts, and spare parts. He had finally built it: the hologram zipper! Now he just needed
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The end of the beginning of the end of the beginning
I was a man who had written many stories, but had not a single finished story. A fault that brought me down more than I’d like to admit.
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Hubris among the stars
Vash and Cassidy, vash died while bounty hunting and Cassidy thought he just left and they knew each other for 1 and a half years before vash died
Hopeless
Ivy was just your average teenager who just couldn’t catch a break. She wanted to become this outgoing girl but she was too shy until she met (YC.) which caused her to become more than out going. “God I just want to be noticed by someone.” She spoke softly to no one in particular
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That’s the Way the Croissant Crumbles
Real love is flying a box of Costco croissants halfway across the country for someone.
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“I shouldn’t have touched that.” -2024
She kept her 3 favorite things lined up on the shelf above her bed - but as she looked at them now, she realized one was missing.
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Creation of Earth
The cliff rose up, forbidding and brutal, and it was as if it had been waiting for me.
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PSL Predator
He was a man of many words - except for this time.
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No Rest for the Respirated
The fastest way to become ostracized by society is to care about other people. Case in point--I wear a respirator everywhere I go because in spite of everyone's massive denial, a pandemic is still happening, and people are continuing to get sick & disabled. Now everyone avoids me
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A tear for Luigi
Barry Gibb paced in BGHQ. “It’s not fair! We, as The Bee Gees, have been saving lives with our music for 50 years now. But those Beach Boys do it once and get all the glory!” Maurice put a hand on his shoulder, saying “take it easy, brother. It’s not about the press.”
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Fly to Die for a Fond MEPhone: Part IVoid
Until, well, the studio audience fell down. So did the host. And the floor, and then it was over. Where was I? A sign was in front of me, that was for sure. “Welcome to the Void. Terrible name, I know, considering you are in a room right now. I’m just the copy editor!”
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Illinois Lip Service
I’d never felt so embarrassed in my life. I knew I should’ve lied.
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Can’t Stop Smiling
Lucy’s family lived by one rule. NEVER STOP BEING HAPPY.
Everyone loves people
“I suspected this,” muttered he, gripping the steering wheel, his knuckles whitening and his mind becoming more troubled with each passing moment of this infuriating scenery.
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My Ordinary Life
I got up, dazed and confused. I looked around. I saw an angel to the left, and a cloud on the ground. I was sitting on a golden throne. "Who am I?" I asked the angel. The angel panicked. "What--what do you mean, my Lord?" "I don't know who I am." The angel gulped. "You are God."
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Buzzards, bread, and cardinals.
The whole family gathered around the fire for our seasonal burning of dried cornstalk. While my brothers and sisters were captivated by the swirling glow, my eyes were captured by the sky. Beyond the field of golden rye, a buzzard circled the pasture.
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Bleed love
Once upon a time, there lived a wizard called Brian. Brian liked to practice magic and invent new spells to test on his passionless wife, Kathleen. One spring day, he had his greatest idea yet, a love spell.
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One Pizza at a Time
They say that hell is other people, which turns out to be literal given the number of people I see below. You can’t see the ground in this valley of Hell because of all the people in it. I sigh and begin hiking down the slope.
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Driftwood Delight
All the Maynards were home for the holidays. Four generations and not a spare room in the house. While everyone settled in, Abraham, the patriarch, was in the kitchen making his famous dish: Driftwood Delight.
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Flip Your Phones in the Air: Part II
They can do anything that they want. They didn’t want to pry into it but they owned the phone. They wanted to set it back to manual setting.
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Moral: dilemma
The endlessly flowing wine and tasty crudités were exceptional, but the finest thing about that evening was that none of the guests knew I was the killer.
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Mayo, buttons, and time travel oh my!
Mrs Perkinson loved mayonnaise and and buttons, so she did what any old woman who lived alone in her 70s would do: She built statues with them. The mayonnaise hardened into a rock hard shell and the buttons were satisfying to click together. She built a castle out of them.
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Let’s get this broom and kitty show on the road
The morning the witch decided to shed her skin like a lizard and become someone else, she prepared by
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Contingency Claus
On the night before Christmas, in all the world, millions of Children wait for Santa Claus.
Pitch Black
The VOID Dimension was to be in 1991, and the boss named VOID Secret was in 1993 I suppose, but don't worry, they were hidden good at the moment when the Other Dimension were trying to kill them honestly, but, the VOID was very strong, so nothing can stand a chance for this.
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Love on the Rocs
Antarctica. That’s where I’ll find love?
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The Fart and the Furious
Everyone was in shock. They couldn't even gather up their minds after what they have just witnessed
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Storm of Introspection
The sound of raindrops on dried leaves was everpresent. Others ran from the bus stop towards home, cursing, hands over their heads, in a futile attempt to not get wet by the sudden storm. I choose to enjoy it, embrace the cold drops on my face. I feel alive. Then thunder cracks.
The Storm
It was a beautiful night; the moon was shining, and the stars were twinkling. In the cold waters we sailed, back and forth we went as the waves tossed us. All the sudden, the crew commanded by our leader seen upcoming gray clouds ahead. I then heard someone shout, "STORM AHEAD!"
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