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Member Since: May 21, 2011

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Sean Boling

Biography

Sean lives with his family in Paso Robles, California. He teaches English at Cuesta College.

Smashwords Interview

When did you first start writing?
I've dabbled my whole life, but didn't feel as though I had much to say until I was almost thirty and had gone back to college.
Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Not sure if it counts as a story, but I remember the first book I wrote: "The Godzilla Dictionary" (complete with illustrations). 'A' was for 'Angry', which you didn't want to make Godzilla. 'B' was for 'Baby Godzilla'. And so it went. That was also self-published, with construction paper and staples. Only one copy in print.
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Series

The Current Mr. Orr by
Devin Orr's clone was only supposed to help with multitasking in this life, not visit the afterlife whenever he is put in storage. Challenges to the fabric of the universe rarely go as planned, though. The universe is funny like that.
Devin's Best Afterlife
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Once in Two Lifetimes
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Books

Once in Two Lifetimes by
Series: The Current Mr. Orr. Price: Free! Words: 42,220. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2023. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical
Book Two of The Current Mr. Orr, in which he wonders if he visited the afterlife after all. It seemed real. One of the few people who knows his identity suspects he really was there, and approaches him about going back. When he does, finding out it was all true provides no peace.
Devin's Best Afterlife by
Series: The Current Mr. Orr. Price: Free! Words: 40,210. Language: English. Published: January 5, 2022. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical
Book One of The Current Mr. Orr, in which Devin Orr's clone learns anything is possible in the afterlife, but our baggage from earth comes with us. He was only supposed to help Devin multitask in this life, not scout the afterlife and soothe any hard feelings toward Devin among the deceased. But challenges to the natural order tend not to go as planned. The universe is funny like that.
Over Here We Have by
Price: Free! Words: 36,240. Language: English. Published: January 7, 2021. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Three novellas exploring how people try to get what they want, try to keep it, and try to get it back.
Moral Adjacent by
Price: Free! Words: 42,130. Language: English. Published: January 6, 2020. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Literary
Doing the right thing feels good. It feels even better when you can put it on your college application.
Should by
Price: Free! Words: 36,460. Language: English. Published: January 4, 2019. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical
His audience jumps from nonexistent to noteworthy thanks to one reader with the right connections. As growth spikes and events unfold, he starts to wonder if maybe they were the wrong connections.
The Name Field by
Price: Free! Words: 48,390. Language: English. Published: January 8, 2018. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Literary
Field knows there is something sinister about his job, but his mentor helped him find purpose as a teenager, so he ignores his suspicions. Then Lulu comes back into his life. They were childhood best friends, bonded by their challenges growing up together in Special Education. Eventually Field is forced to choose between the person who saved his childhood, and the person who saved his adolescence.
Show Them What They Won by
Price: Free! Words: 53,160. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2017. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
(5.00 from 1 review)
The only way to change someone’s worldview is to change their world.
The Latest Version of My Love Story by
Price: Free! Words: 35,610. Language: English. Published: January 4, 2016. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Feeling old doesn’t bother Fina that much. Feeling useless is the problem. She finds purpose in a friendship with Cal, a combat veteran who has taken up arts and crafts and watching romantic comedies as a defense against his past. She may also discover why people tell love stories, depending on what she remembers of their time together, and how she lines up those memories.
A Charter to That Other Place by
Price: Free! Words: 73,440. Language: English. Published: January 5, 2015. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Literary
Live Oak Charter Academy is the latest elixir to arrive in the valley. Drought cycles, crop yields, and market forces have left a trail of previous solutions: an army base, a state mental hospital, a shipping warehouse for an online retailer, a prison. And though the school is smaller in scale than previous efforts, it inspires bigger dreams, with a more fragile margin of error.
Satellite Campus by
Price: Free! Words: 73,220. Language: English. Published: November 12, 2013. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
An astronomer discovers that consciousness is no less mysterious than deep space as he spends time with his mother during her last days on earth.
The Summer of Our Foreclosure by
Price: Free! Words: 79,510. Language: English. Published: November 26, 2012. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Literary
When the American Dream is defined as something you can’t afford, you can extend your finances, extend your commute, extend your family, extend your reasoning, and when the dream snaps back into reality, extend the party one more summer and try to finally enjoy what you have before it’s gone.
Pigs and Other Living Things by
Price: Free! Words: 14,120. Language: English. Published: March 28, 2012. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
(5.00 from 1 review)
Five short stories, some that explore our relationship to the animals inside us, and others to the animals around us.
Abraham the Anchor Baby Terrorist by
Price: Free! Words: 75,040. Language: English. Published: March 17, 2012. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
(5.00 from 1 review)
Abraham is supposed to grow up to be a terrorist. But things don't always turn out the way they're supposed to.
Cut Flowers by
Price: Free! Words: 108,360. Language: English. Published: June 9, 2011. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Stanford and Dodge each need redemption. Dodge wasted most of his life in a drug-induced stupor, while Stanford wasted an upscale career in business thanks to his hubris. The two men meet while working for a flower grower in a rugged coastal region of California. The unlikely colleagues suspect the area harbors a drug ring, and that breaking it up will provide a fast track back to self-respect.

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