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The Good Egg

There is a taste to this memory, and a texture, so vivid that to call it false would be to put at risk every memory I’ve ever had. To call…

Aug 29, 2024

The Good Egg

Aug 29, 2024

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DROPOUT

I let it slip during a book club meeting. I don’t remember what book we’d read or what brought it on, but it had something to do with…

Nov 21, 2024

DROPOUT

Nov 21, 2024

DNF

Caught in a fraudulent exchange of words, I’d been exposed. An eye-roll here, a scoff there. Soon, the duration of our readings shrunk, and…

Apr 25, 2024

DNF

Apr 25, 2024

Couldn’t be. Then who?

A lump of brown sugar lies by the fire, eyes slit, waiting. I peek over my book; I see you, I say with my gaze, but the gunslinger pulls me…

Mar 20, 2024

Couldn’t be. Then who?

Mar 20, 2024

Long walk, short pier

It’s one thing to be fired in front of a store full of people, but it’s an entirely different experience to be fired in front of a dog. I’m…

Mar 13, 2024

Long walk, short pier

Mar 13, 2024

The Writer’s Prayer

Every morning, I trundle down the overgrown path to the wooden bridge. Small things move about under decaying leaves. I hear them, but I…

Mar 13, 2024

The Writer’s Prayer

Mar 13, 2024

Sean Thomas McDonnell

Sean Thomas McDonnell

Sean is a horror writer whose central themes explore powerlessness vs. agency, moral ambiguity, and human fragility. https://substack.com/@saidshony

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