Jesse Teller

Tag: Guardian

  • The Sin Eater 20: The Porch

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    It went on. I started to dread seeing him at times. Sometimes I would call him just to see what he was doing. He would come over and talk, or we would go for a ride. Things would be good for a while. He would be funny. I would see him in there again. Then…

  • The Sin Eater 19: To Kill A Man

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    You never got much notice on a thing like this. Maybe a day, maybe two. Rose complained, but the women of the Mocking family have little power, and she knew not to fight it. “Just remember he’s a pathological liar,” Rose said as I made for the door. “You can’t believe anything that Ball says.…

  • The Sin Eater 18: Hand After Hand Part 2

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    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…

  • The Sin Eater 17: The Mocking Family Reunion

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    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…

  • The Sin Eater 14: Aunt Easy Part 3

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    I don’t want to be here. I just went to a graduation party for a kid who is really important to me. I wrote all through last night, almost 11,000 words, starting with Aunt Easy Part 1 and ending where you just turned the page. I want to go hang out with my family. I…

  • The Sin Eater 13: Hand After Hand Part 1

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    There were so many things going on at this time in my life that I really can’t nail any of it down. I’m going to throw a few things around. Let’s call it a few hands of poker. Some are wins where I pull in the pot. A lot of them are losses, times I…

  • The Sin Eater 12: Aunt Easy Part 2

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    “I heard that you have a new friend,” Uncle Ball said to Shadow. Shadow had no idea who this person was except that he was important, and that he was fun, and that he was dangerous. Nothing scared Shadow, and after a few hours of this guy talking to Rose, Shadow found himself in the…

  • The Sin Eater 10: Waynesville Part 1

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    My name is Joe. I disappeared for a long time between Bekah and I breaking up in 1998 and the writing of Teardrop Road. When I came back, I had no idea what all of this technology was about. I didn’t know what a cell phone was. Computers had been taught to me by Mr.…

  • The Sin Eater 5: Darling Nikki

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    I guess it was the day of the big snow. Picture Milwaukee, winter, closed schools all across the city. Every school aged boy in the city wakes up to good news and bad. Yes, there is no school, and yes, get your shovel. There was promise of hot chocolate when it was all over. The…

  • 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…