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Sean King
@seanking
Bio
Sean is the pen name of 35 chimpanzees with typewriters.
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'19
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Sean's Stories
Hide Away In The Winter
A man held Eirin against the wall with her hands, pulling at her shirt. She tried pushing him away, but he was too strong. He held one hand over her mouth just as she was about to call for help. Tears poured down her face, begging for someone to help her.
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The Short Life of Lillith's Pet Lizard & Her Evil Ambitions
Lillith wanted her pet Lizard to eat every single person on the face of the earth to please Lord Lucifer. So she crawled out of her underground home with her Lizard in hand ready to conquer and went to the nearest store to have her pet lizard eat people. The store was empty. 🤔
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The Short Life of Marvin the Mammoth
My entire life was flipped upside down when a gigantic mammoth fell from the sky, shattered my roof, and destroyed my house right as I was about to walk in.
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Three Heroes, Two Demons, and One Really Big Sword: Part II
Mark, Nick, and Leo all became legends after their thousand-demon hunting crusade rid hospitals of demons all over the land. Their single gigantic sword that they wielded together was the key to their success. That is why they panicked when one day their sword went missing.
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Infinity Maze
I was trapped in Infinity Maze, a maze so large and complex and intricate that it spanned entire light-years and engulfed entire solar systems. The walls around me forced me to choose between one of several directions to see if I could make it back to my home planet.
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Oh, Deer! Part II
My name is Bambi, and I am an obese deer. I enjoy eating KFC and traveling into people's nightmares so that I can eat more KFC than my body will allow. But recently I myself have been getting nightmares, nightmares where I was driving a car (as a deer) and crashing into a tree.
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Maxwell's Demon
Maxwell was sick of being gaslit all the time by everyone around him. Everyone pretended that the sky was blue and the grass was green, when in reality the sky was pitch black filled with the smoke and toxins of multiple deregulated train crashes and the grass was dead.
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Electric Quest
I have been keeping track of the days since the start of the crisis. First it was at home, for myself. It’s harder than you expect without power or data. 9 days in, I heard 3 different people say “I’m not sure what day it is.” The next day I started sharing the date publicly.
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The Commonality: Part II
"Let's go shopping!" said my eel enthusiastically.
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Story Time! 🤘👽
He opened the doors and the smell of tobacco immediately filled his nostrils. Alex didn’t care for casinos but he loved money, and this was the only place where he could make the switch. Amidst the flashing lights and music emerged a hooded figure with a glowing red cigar.
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Oh, Deer!
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I had been troubled by nightmares for weeks. Each night was the same strange images followed by a warning delivered by talking deer. A car tumbling down a hill. A truck sliding sideways down the highway above the pass. A man without eyebrows laughing. “BEWARE!” said the deer.
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Heat of the Moment: Part II
After two months, she was there again beside him. He hadn't seen her since but he didn't mind. Work has been keeping him busy. She smiled at him, moving over. "The sky waits for us." Her voice is soft and calm. The sun slowly setting in front of them. The streets empty. Just them
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A Call To Him
I've tried so hard to make mends with my mother and father, but they don't want me anymore. When Cori left, I did too. I got a job at a cafe and began my life. When she called me, I think I died. He's gone. Even now as I sit in this truck, I'm scared. I wish I was a better sister
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In Prison for Writing Satire
I was thrown into a prison cell, with cuffs around my hands and toes. I kept screaming that writing satire was not a crime, but the police were having none of it.
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Three Heroes, Two Demons, and One Really Big Sword
Mark and nick and leo look at demon and both of them pall out their sword.
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Walking Back to a Forgotten Love
Mr. Madness invented a tachyon machine that allowed him to travel backwards in time. Little did he know that now he was stuck experiencing the past as his future, walking and talking backwards as he was stuck doing things in a reverse-way. He now longed to be free of this curse.
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Heat of the Moment
The fire raged as Caroline stood near the curb in ripped and bloody clothing; leaning on the mailbox for support. Sirens blared in the distance and her mind went back to how this all started some 12 hours ago when…
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Pie in the Sky
Lilliana, despite her petite size, finished the enormous apple pie in record time. She got up to accept her prize when, at the last moment, a caped figure leapt onstage and grabbed the trophy.
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What about Fluffy?
The Millers lived in an ordinary house, on an ordinary street, in an ordinary town. They even had an ordinary (ish) dog called Fluffy, but the Millers weren't an ordinary family - oh no. They had one specific trait that made them different:
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Into the Spiral Mind
He drew deep black squiggles in his notebook. No one could find out that he was infected, that he was now one of 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. The squiggles grew larger and now resembled an all-consuming spiral. If someone found out, he was screwed. This was serious.
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Dream Girl
It was her! The woman he had dreamed about for three long years. His heart beat so loud in his chest he worried everyone in the room could hear it. How could this be? He had created her in his own lucid dreams to combat the loneliness he had experienced while he was at war.
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NSFW
“I don’t want Gary on my team,” I said to my boss. “He takes his meetings from the gym, it’s disgusting!” “But he’s our top sales performer and we’re not making our numbers!” said my boss. “Fine,” I said. “Under one condition …”
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War and Moles
The Underground City of Yumaria was a sight to see, if only if it hadn’t been so filthy as it was. It was common though, at least for some people to have the dirt from the surface rain down upon them and the streets due to the trolleys from the higher district which ran between
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Machines taking over the world
The machine factory smells of oil and a white burning alcohol scent. The hum-hiss-hum of the machinery is soothing. The clapping of steel boots on steel floors. It is grounding. Is is comforting. This is physical sensation of purpose, she thought.
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Foam Mates
As she unwrapped each gift, Tessa thought about Carlos, and all the things that led to this exquisite wedding shower. How had she—a barista from Albuquerque—ended up in the lap of luxury?
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Marathon Zarathon’s hit single “Promises Schmomishes”
Katie was a nice girl. She wasn’t like the other miscreants in this awful place. She was only stuck here because she’d made a single, terrible mistake. Katie McClure was not supposed to be here.
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Goat Bytes
Moses picked up the newspaper and sighed. “Man steals prize-winning goat, makes millions at county fair.” How could I have let this happen? he thought.
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Test Run.
The misty streets were empty as he walked to work that morning.
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Ebonyfur and Alaska
Prologue Thunder was rolling off in the distance, rain pelted the ground. Ebonyfur could hardly see through the dense rain. She blinked as thick icy raindrops clouded over her eyes, making it incredibly hard to see.
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Judgement
There are a lot of people out there who think that the world is dying fast. It had been slower then since they didn’t have the tools we have now that had gotten them this far into the future, but leaving behind in their wake the forgotten ones that tried and tried to be better.
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