Author: jesseteller
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 5: Writer’s Block
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Liechen’s War Part 1”, “Liechen’s War Part 2” and “Malice” chapters from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The writing assignment from Class 2 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom…
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Chaste: Chapter 1
THE STAIN Seven Years Before The Escape An unholy sound rose into the air, ripping through the silence of morning and raking claws through the isolated minds of the citizens of Chaste. Cheryl lifted her head from the straw pillow and didn’t know where she was. She looked at the humble, wretched home around her…
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Billy Badass 1
They would play frisbee on the hot days, their t-shirts tucked in their belts they would soar the disc down the street sometimes in teams of two. I once watched Demon Duck run across the front bumper of a ’71 Chevelle and leap off the other side to catch a frisbee. It was an art…
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Benders 3
They played basketball in the afternoons under the viaduct down the street. We would see them walking the alley on their way there and it was like watching a movie. They moved as a crew. A long line across the alley, Joshua in front in the center, bouncing the ball and walking. As I sit…
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Benders 2
In the apartment below us lived a mulatto kid named Kerry. He was big and ugly and mean, and he hated living in the neighborhood as much as the Benders hated him living there. There was always beef between the two forces. Kerry was a badass there was no stopping. He was an apt criminal…
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The Benders 1
Ten and a new neighborhood. This was still poor white. A few blocks south was a neighborhood run by a phantom gang. I knew little about them. One day when I was eleven there was a march to their turf by the Benders to settle a robbery that had happened in our neighborhood. They met…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 4: Sitting Down to Write
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Pig” and “Rising Winds” chapters from Teardrop Road. Procrastination They say about procrastination that you’re only hurting yourself. That’s not true. They say about procrastination that it’s easy to handle and you should just do it, whatever the it is. It’s not true. Procrastination is like…
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Legends of the Exiles: Chapter 1
DREADED DESIRES, Part I 31 Years Before The Escape Her head hurt. She kept running. She was hungry and hadn’t eaten in days. She kept running. This was much farther out than her father had ever taken her hunting. But the image of her mother screaming with reddened face, slapping and clawing at the floor…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 3: Point of View
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “The Prince of Darkness” chapter from Teardrop Road. Class Storytelling Imagine you’re writing the story of this class, and you are telling the story from your point of view, my Grad Student’s point of view, or my point of view. Your Point of View As a student,…
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from Legends of Perilisc
THE SECOND AGE ~120,000 Years Before The Escape A thousand gods warred, legions of them lined shoulder-to-shoulder in ranks that cast twisting shadows on the surface of the shattered land. The sheer strength of their blows filled the air with thunder. The crunching of the lines, roaring against one another, displaced the air, and the…
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