Jesse Teller

Author: jesseteller

  • The Secret Book

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    To write a novel is often an impossible chore, or at least it can feel like it. Time spent in planning and plotting, time spent in discussion and reflection, demands recognition. You live with this story for so long it becomes an obsession. It becomes the thing you do with your mind when it is…

  • Lost Confessions: Living Room 1

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    It is happening in the living room for god sakes! That is kinda funny if you think about it, lol. He isn’t really scary. He is kinda boring looking. He has short hair and is sort of balding. He is wearing a suit. He has a bag or a briefcase with him. I can’t really…

  • The Friday 13 with Kevin Wright

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    Kevin Wright studied writing at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell and fully utilized his bachelor’s degree by seeking and attaining employment first as a produce clerk and later as an emergency medical technician and firefighter. His parents were thrilled. For decades now he has studied a variety of martial arts but steadfastly remains not-tough in…

  • Stealing Marbles

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    Every time we moved into a new house my mother did the same scam. She convinced the landlord to buy her a few gallons of paint, a couple of brushes and a roller, and she would paint the entire house if he would give her a cut on the first month’s rent. When we moved…

  • The Friday 13 with Aaron C. Cross

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    According to family lore, Aaron learned how to read (or knew, actually) at the ripe age of two years old and proceeded to devour – figuratively, of course – every book he could get his hands on like a literary toddler-aged Galactus. He continued to read and expanded his reach to writing when he was…

  • Lost Confessions: Sister

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    Dan put her in a room. He stood in front of the closed door. “I want you to pretend that there is a monster in this room. That monster is hurting your sister, he is hurting her. You have to get through this door to her to protect her. GO!!” Adam ran double fast to…

  • Billy Badass 2

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    Gregory Romeo was a kid from school I had been friends with for years. He lived outside our neighborhood in a tiny duplex in a highly Latino section of the city. He was within walking distance of my neighborhood and one day, when I was in his area, we met up on the street. We…

  • Forecast for the Coming Storm

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    I would like to forecast the year to come and let you know what is in the mix for 2019. I really enjoyed putting out a newsletter. It allowed me to talk about things I just had no forum to discuss. Last year we talked about Kestic, Land of Monsters, and Teretal, Land of Beasts. We…

  • The Friday 13 with Allan Batchelder

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    Allan Batchelder is the author of the Immortal Treachery series, currently at four out of a planned five novels. He’s a professional actor, former stand up comedian, and sometime emergency floatation device. Oh, and he teaches 8th graders. Talk about grimdark! He lives in Seattle with his wife, son – currently away at college –…

  • A Cry in the Night

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    I was wearing new pajamas, lying on the top of a new bunk bed, in my new room in my new house. I knew I liked my room. I knew the living room was bigger than the last one. This house had a backyard and there was a boy my age who lived next door.…