Tag: Guardian
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 17: Character
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “The Beginning of My Life” and “The Coming of Shadow” chapters from Teardrop Road, and the novella Seeds of Tarako. Writing Assignment for this class: The assignment from Class 14 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 11: Deadlines
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “The Four Queens” chapter from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The assignment from Class 9 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom of the assignment. I told you to read…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 6: The Shadow of the Imposter
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Billy Badass Part 1” and “Billy Badass Part 2” chapters from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The writing assignment from Class 3 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom of…
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My Apocrypha 25: Bubbly
Bubbly was not hot. Business liked to hire beautiful waitresses and waiters so that, one, the restaurant had a charm to it and two, the waitresses and waiters made a considerable amount of tips. Bubbly had been a waitress and had moved her way up to assistant manager. She was not just hot. Which is…
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My Apocrypha 23: Pocket Change
I don’t remember how the idea was posed to me. I was six, and it is in the nature of a Mocking Man to collect things. I started with matchbox cars, but there were far too many of these to get them all. Then I moved to books. I wanted books about magic. And I…
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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 19: The Pug
So near the beginning of Guardian’s War, the semester ended and summer hung over me hot and heavy. My film class had a big guy who sat next to me, and we became pretty close. He was a cool guy until I invited him to my house and he parked on my lawn. He pulled…
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My Apocrypha 16: King
I believe it was March 4, 2001, that the city of Springfield celebrated Fat Tuesday. Now if you want to get technical, that is the Saturday before Fat Tuesday, but we are in Missouri, not New Orleans, and the bars figured, fuck it, close enough. Downtown planned a pub crawl, and for about twenty dollars…
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My Apocrypha 12: Breakfast in Bed
I’m afraid of water. When I was six, Char threw me in the waters of White Creek in Wisconsin. He had been laying Less on his arms at water level, teaching her how to paddle with her arms. He had lowered her and she had spit, and he raised her back up. He talked her…
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