Author: jesseteller

  • The Friday 13 with Cris & Clare Meyers

    Cris and Clare Meyers are married co-authors of urban fantasy. Their current project is an adult urban fantasy heist series that features a band of supernatural criminals. Born and raised in Illinois, they still make the Midwest their home. They met in college, where they were both majoring in English. They both wrote a few…

  • The Horn Blower

    I guess I was 21, maybe 20, when I saw him. My life at the time was one of sedentary derision. I can’t say that I hated everyone. I can’t say that I loved anyone. All I can say about that time in my life was that I was numb. High school had left me…

  • The Friday 13 with Brian Hagan

    Brian Hagan’s background is varied and curious, starting with an interest in science and language, before moving into animation and game design. Most recently he’s been working with gemstones, and experimenting with bonsai and carnivorous plants. But of all his many hobbies and vocations, he loves telling stories above all else. His first novel, The…

  • The Tome

    I don’t know how I ended up working there. It is all kind of a blur. But it was the last vestige of civilization before the darkness of the road that left it all behind. As I worked nights there, I could feel the bridge out there, just out of reach, but comfortably close. I…

  • The Friday 13 with Eva Pasco

    “On the road, as in life—I accelerate!” After retiring from a career in elementary education, midlife restlessness prompted Eva Pasco to rekindle her passion for storytelling by composing fiction that taps into significant issues affecting the lives of women over forty. Her novels in the genre of Contemporary Women’s Fiction are distinguished for their character-driven…

  • The Opera

    She had been banished from our home. When my sister left, our home went into a kind of hushed awe. She had been so destructive for so long. With her gone, there was really nothing left but a great sigh and a wandering of spirit. Without her, there was no crisis. Without her, there was…

  • The Friday 13 with Assaph Mehr

    Assaph has been feeding his addiction for books with stories of mystery and fantasy of all kinds. A few years ago, he randomly picked a copy of a Lindsey Davis’s Marcus Didius Falco novel in a used book fair, and fell in love with Rome all over again, this time from the view-point of a cynical…

  • The Leviathan of Devil’s Elbow

    Tossing and turning with darkness and melancholy on my chest, I rolled out of bed and dressed slowly. It was girls; it was my sister; it was an oppressive home and a bone-deep sadness that held back sleep, but it was also a calling. Something from far away was calling. A yearning, a need, a…

  • The Friday 13 with Karen Morral

    Karen Morral has been creative for much of her life: writing, drawing, painting, taking photographs and developing a professional career in Architecture. She revels in exploring place, and multi-sensory experiences, particularly using smell in her writing, and tactile subjects in her photography. Morral’s writing is varied, predominantly fantasy with characters thrust into high drama scenarios.…

  • Tapping the Beast

    You have to understand, he was my world back then. His name was D, and he was my best friend. I had grown up a mongrel, always hated and misunderstood, friendless, and begging for people to be nice to me, begging for anyone to hang out with me. I was reviled and abused by my…