Jesse Teller

Author: jesseteller

  • Tapping the Beast

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    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…

  • The Friday 13 with Robert Krenzel

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    A New Jersey native currently living in the Kansas City area, Robert “Bob” Krenzel is a retired Army officer and a veteran of the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He is a happily married father of two, whose time is mostly spent sharing his children’s activities or tending to a dog and a small herd of…

  • The Hammer and the Spike

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    This story, I need not tell, for eyes other than human may be watching. They will not want this story told, and I promised I would never tell it. But fear wanes like a full moon, or a gaping wound, and now things don’t seem so real. Now, with 25 years of telling myself it…

  • The Friday 13 with Ame Terra

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    Ame Terra means “love earth” in Portuguese. The author loves earth, writing, traveling, photography and wine. In her first novel, Earth No. 105, she swirls love and chaos into sweet little morsels of suspense. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, son and rescue pup Odie. Why storytelling? What made you yearn to tell a…

  • Spines of Ice

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    1982, and there was nothing more important, no day more significant, than when I woke up on Christmas morning. I was 6, and the magic of Santa Claus had just passed over the house. The daylight had heard, too, and it was waking up slowly, still half asleep, just as excited as I was to…

  • The Friday 13 with Steve Mann

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    Steve Mann is a retired high school teacher, an adjunct college teacher, a writer of eccentric mysteries, an amateur chef, an appreciator of a good, dry white wine, a multi-genre reader, and a lover of a good story. You have centered your story around painting and an art gallery. Can you tell us of any…

  • In View of the Dead

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    To say that I loved her would have been warping the word. At the time, it was the only word I knew to describe the way she made me feel. I was a freshman in high school. I wanted love so badly, wanted to feel important to someone. But more than anything, I wanted to…

  • The Friday 13 with Tawny Kipphorn

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    Why storytelling? What made you yearn to tell a good story, and how long was this story within you before it came out?  There was always a strong appeal to writing for me, and I discovered it when I first delved into literature from the Romanticism period. As a small child I was a big…

  • The Darkness Between

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    In 2010, I dedicated myself to writing books. I wrote every day. Well, five times a week, and I got in the habit. You can get in the habit of anything—anything. I got in the habit of creating. At the time, I had dedicated myself to rough drafts. I was trying to teach myself how…

  • The Friday 13 with Charles McGarry

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    Well, folks, this is a new feature of my blog. I hope you are as interested and excited about it as I am. I will now be doing interviews with authors every other Friday. I am calling this feature The Friday 13, as I will be asking 13 questions of our authors. I’m really pumped…