Jesse Teller

Tag: Grandma

  • The Sin Eater 4: The Sons of the Devil

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    Grandpa needs a name now. He has needed one for a long time, but I have been hesitant to give him one. The man confuses me. I knew and know him as two people. Stories told to me, images locked in my mind. As I look down at the compass I use to try to…

  • The Sin Eater 3: Pimples

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    “Goddammit, these fuckin’ pimples!” Uncle Ball dropped his head on his table and growled. “Why does this whole family’s skin suck?” He turned to me and pointed at his nose. Right on the tip of it was a tiny red spot. “Do you know who is going to see that, Jesse?” “No, Uncle Ball, who?”…

  • The Sin Eater 2: McDonald’s Children’s Booklet

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    Got my first bike that year. It was royal blue, black banana seat, and it was different from every other bike in my neighborhood. Nope. Barely noticed. For my birthday that year my Grandma and Grandpa threw me the biggest party that any of their grandchildren ever got. Nope. Barely noticed. Every toy, tossed aside.…

  • The Sin Eater 1: Hero

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    I tried. I really tried to leave him out of my story. I wanted to keep his crimes to myself and my wife and the therapist. But Uncle Ball attacked me yesterday. He reached out and tried to hit me as hard as he could. And I would have let it go, but he made…

  • The Kingdom 6: Cogs and Springs

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    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 today we begin at 6 p.m. and I will release…

  • The Kingdom 5: The Ring

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    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 today we begin at 6 p.m.…

  • The Shieldmaidens 8: Honey

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    And I bow as I step onto the dance floor, and the strings strain, and the bodies around us move. Bodies of abusers and saviors. Rose dances with Olsen, Destiny with Tiger. The music plays, we all twirl, and I take each of the next stories out onto the floor. The waltz is the most…

  • The Shieldmaidens 3: Misty Part 1

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    And I bow as I step onto the dance floor, and the strings strain, and the bodies around us move. Bodies of abusers and saviors. Rose dances with Olsen, Destiny with Tiger. The music plays, we all twirl, and I take each of the next stories out onto the floor. The waltz is the most…

  • The Round Table 19: Wrath

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    Friday was release day for a book I wrote called Beacon, book one of the Nation of Five series. The book is about young men and an impossible task they set before themselves. Well, I know a lot about impossible tasks. I’m a DID survivor who suffers from hallucinations. I have bipolar and Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder. Getting…

  • In the Name of the Father 23: Shade

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    Naked and burning in the sun, Pain walks out into the desert and lets the sand burn his feet. He lets the rage burn his heart and wonders why he should be here. So many terrible things happened on God’s watch. How can he even start to think about working it all out? When the…