Tag: Assassin
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 14: Character Creation
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Strong Urge to Fly” chapter from Teardrop Road We’re gonna talk about character creation today. I had you read “Strong Urge to Fly.” It’s a story of when Smear Lord of Ire was created. The one that, in my mind, we call Artist. I remember earlier…
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My Apocrypha 21: Ziti
Well, I guess it started with a sandwich and a book. Book first, or sandwich? Well, I got ten votes for sandwich, so here we go. It was after a horrific session of therapy. Bekah picked me up, tried to talk to me for a while, and I just stared out the window and watched…
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My Apocrypha 20: Good Church Boy
“I just got off the phone,” Bekah said over the line. She sounded scared. She sounded stuck. “Well, I just got off the phone with mom and she…” Bekah cursed. “I can’t believe she did this to me.” “Bekah, slow down. What’s going on?” Siren looked at me from across the room. “We have plans…
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My Apocrypha 10: Guardian’s Nazis
After what Ronin did in front of Cheech, things had to change, and Cheech was going to make sure they did. See, all of the guys in the dorm treated me as if I was a cute pet. They saw me whining about a girl, saw that I couldn’t land a lay, and they just…
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The Sin Eater 28: Foul Water
“Is this what they look like now?” I asked Grandma Mocking. It had been over two years since I had been back to Waynesville to see anyone, and I chose to start my attack here. “Yup, that is them. There is sweet Dewdrop and that is Ball’s Little Man. You would be so proud of…
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The Sin Eater 25: There’s Lust in the Backwoods
I’m at home. Just got out of Pizza Hut and I have a full belly. No one around at all. Quiet, til he pulls up, and I hear Billy Joel. The door is open before the knock. He steps in and puts his hands on his waist and looks at his feet. “Get in the…
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The Sin Eater 18: Hand After Hand Part 2
Update. Writing this book has not been easy on me or my family. Two of the Lost Boys have come back. One of them I won’t tell you about. He carries the filth of Aunt Easy and others on him, and he is so disgusted by himself that he laid on the altar for over…
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The Sin Eater 17: The Mocking Family Reunion
Me and Ty went through a Simon and Garfunkel phase. I am just a poor boy Though my story’s seldom told I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles Such are promises I copied the tape so I could practice for our rides and I was getting good. I had all the harmonies…
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The Kingdom 22: Halloween
Here we go again. Welcome to the blog blast of the section that I call The Kingdom from the book Reality of the Unreal Mind, Vol. 3: The Keep. The Kingdom is an explanation of the work itself. You can’t understand any writer unless you know their work. So Friday we began at 6 p.m. and I will release…
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