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Apr 19Liked by Sean Thomas McDonnell

Wow, this was good weird. I like it. Had to google spider crabs, all I know is that coconut crab which tastes good. Looks creepy these crabs. But this fic kinda feels like a twilight zone episode

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Apr 18Liked by Sean Thomas McDonnell

Not the spider crab! There's a large one in our local museum and I've been scared of it since 1998.

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Apr 16Liked by Sean Thomas McDonnell

I love this! Very creepy (but also funny in places), and you do a great job of maintaining the mystery!

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Damn, I'm dying to get some more of this. I love that you leave so much to the imagination with the creature... but still manage to paint such a clear picture of it in my head. And the connection between the eyes and the peas changing colour is so damn cool. Love this!

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Apr 16Liked by Sean Thomas McDonnell

That is so weird! And what!? The ending is killer, too. I hope this creature makes it into a longer story someday🤞

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Apr 15Liked by Sean Thomas McDonnell

this is so scary! i want more crab monster.

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Apr 15Liked by Sean Thomas McDonnell

Just ran to the bathroom to look in the mirror to make sure my eye color didn't change...

Fantastic as always. Love the "the Laura who cried switcher" vibe.

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Apr 15Liked by Sean Thomas McDonnell

what an ending man

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do something called free writing. where let the birds out of the cage flapping yapping and tippy tapping. and I really found its helpful to automaton -- in order to come across the unexpected. and it gave me freedom to expose things I didnt even know were there, to create a way through well for me nonsense rhyme am closer to CS Lewis in some ways, still agve a way into speaking to them -- this is interesting you bring in the mysterious creature -- is it going kafka or the alien...

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