A) SEAMUS (20s, quick, distracted) shreds and files eight years' worth of bank statements and receipts
B) Seamus fills out applications for private insurance
C) Using a putty knife, Seamus pries scores of blue globs of poster adhesive from his bedroom walls
D) Seamus hides in the kitchen eating Spaghettios until his roommate's family has finished shampooing all the carpets of the empty apartment and it is safe to walk around
E) Seamus and a man with heart trouble shove Seamus's twin bed into the back of the man's van in a thunderstorm
F) Seamus, holding twenty dollars, waves goodbye and resists the urge to shout "Thanks for not craigslist murdering me!" as the van drives away
G) Seamus updates his resume
H) On a bus to Philadelphia, Seamus tries to balance his laptop on the stack of books he couldn't fit into his bags
I) Seamus, his friend JOE (20s, boisterous, mighty), and mutual friend NICK (20s, post-punk-looking) have a huge and scrape-inducing nerf melee in Joe's backyard in the rain
J) Seamus, Joe and Nick play "Earth Defense Force 2017", all of them screaming at the television and trying to kill 200 giant red ants and 100 giant robots apiece, each with a shotgun
K) Seamus, wearing a clean, borrowed T-SHIRT that is slightly too large for him, falls asleep at four in the morning on someone else's couch next to his muddy sneakers, smiling
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