Jesse Teller

Author: jesseteller

  • A Promise to the End

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    Song—My Rottweiler is named Sadie. She is the happiest dog I have ever met and she fills me with joy every day. Writing a book for me takes a very distinct path every time. First is the planning. This is kind of cumbersome. It promises a surge of creativity and a pushing of the borders.…

  • The Friday 13 with Joyce Reynolds-Ward

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    Joyce Reynolds-Ward is a speculative fiction writer who splits her time between Enterprise and Portland, Oregon. Her short stories have appeared in Well…It’s Your Cow, Children of a Different Sky, Steam. And Dragons, Allegory, River, and Fantasy Scroll Magazine, among others. Her books include Shadow Harvest, Alien Savvy, Netwalking Space, Pledges of Honor, Challenges of…

  • Lost Confessions: Shiny

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    Everyone has it. We all have that one thing that makes us feel alive, some activity we are just great at doing. We have a natural talent for that one thing and we know, while we are in it, this is what we were born for. With me, it is writing. I have a talent…

  • The Friday 13 with Aiki Flinthart

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    Aiki Flinthart lives in Australia and hasn’t yet been killed by any terrifying animals. She has, however, been shortlisted in the Australian Aurealis awards, a top-8 finalist in the USA Writers of the Future competition, and published 12 spec fic novels. When not writing, she’s generally to be found doing fantasy-character-approved activities such as martial…

  • Duck at Gus’s

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    If you came and set pins at Gus’s, they paid you a five dollar bill. It was the easiest way for a eight- and nine-year-old to make money in the King’s neighborhood. Gus’s was a bar in the area, with a Pabst Blue Ribbon sign over the door that read “Gus’s Place.” It looked like…

  • The Friday 13 with Matthew P. Gilbert

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    Matthew P. Gilbert, in addition to being a fiction author, is a professional video game developer; a veteran; a columnist for his local newspaper; and the father of three wild boys and two wild girls. He was born and raised in Woodbury, GA, and has been on watch for zombies ever since. He is the…

  • The Horn

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    Twenty-one hours and counting. It’ll be 30 by the time I get to sleep tonight. I do this quite often. We call it “going around the horn.” My normal sleep schedule is from five in the morning to two in the afternoon. It provides me with quiet, isolation, darkness for when I’m writing. These things…

  • Lost Confessions: The Workshop

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    — 2008 — This is an awesome story! Have you ever  known beyond your smallest doubt that you were exactly where you were meant to be, or doing the thing you were supposed to be doing? That is the story I am going to tell you now. I wrote a book. It is a decent…

  • The Friday 13 with Devyn Kennedy

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    Devyn Kennedy is a writer and chef living in Ohio. They are surrounded by books, coffee, and cats. They enjoy spending their time surrounded by laughter and when not sweating in the kitchen or hunched over their desk, they can be found drinking their seventh cup of coffee or tea and reading a book. 1.Why…

  • The Fatboy

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    How was I supposed to know what it was when I was standing in front of the most gorgeous piece of machinery I had ever seen? On the road they looked different. There was always a scary guy riding it. Always a guy who needed a bath, wearing a torn-up shirt and scuffed boots. Under…