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Dropout
Jul 17, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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"BLINK TWICE IF YOU CAN HEAR ME"
Nov 24, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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For the boys.
Jun 4, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Henry's best day.
May 6, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Horror
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I eat it on toast.
thirty paces, turn
Feb 16
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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What Dread Hand
Bodie, California. 1879.
Dec 15, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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The Heart of Lovett
Supernatural Folk Horror
Nov 10, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Little Man & the Moonlight Darlings
Are you moonlight-clean?
Oct 31, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Tin Can
A happy song—a hopeful song.
Oct 27, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Chasm
Julie | 1999
Oct 6, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Automatic Writer
Horror fiction with an abundance of quiet dread and moral ambiguity.
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Westerns (Dark/Horror)
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Perro Negro
A Beneath the Valley Oak story
Mar 3, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Beneath the Valley Oak
A Beneath the Valley Oak story
Feb 20, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Pick up the book!
Beneath the Valley Oak. A collection of dark westerns.
Sep 3, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Apple Snake
I played the song my mother played. And just like my mother, I didn’t stop for death.
Mar 25, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Speculative
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Birds of a feather
The Midnight Vault II
Nov 24, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Henry's best day.
You start here and end there.
May 6, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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THINGS
He laughed, and a city fell.
Apr 23, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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"BLINK TWICE IF YOU CAN HEAR ME"
The secret language of the angels.
Nov 24, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Literary Fiction
For the boys.
Hush, hush.
Jun 4, 2025
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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He Ain't Heavy, He’s My Boulder.
Micro fiction
Jul 3, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Fleck
Micro Fiction
Jun 1, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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DNF
She brought me to her parents, but I never left the dark.
Mar 29, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Sentences
Occasionally, I think about setting it all on fire.
Mar 5, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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The Writer's Prayer
On consistency and inspiration
Feb 27, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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The essence of God
Call me Armadillidium vulgare...
Feb 7, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Poems
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Heartbeats: Don't act surprised
Lyrics as poetry
Mar 22, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Heartbeats: Dead Wrens
Lyrics as poetry
Mar 13, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
11
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Heartbeats: Limited Possibilities
Lyrics as poetry
Feb 29, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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Ten Minutes
A poem.
Jan 24, 2024
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Sean Thomas McDonnell
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