Tag: Less
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 16: Urgency
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Smilin Jack, Part 1” and “Smilin Jack, Part 2” chapters from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The assignment from Class 13 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom of the…
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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 14: The Reunion of Two Monsters
Didn’t get much sleep that night. Allenton was a bit of a maze when you wanted it to be, and after dodging the State Troopers in the helpful dark of the reluctant dawn, X and I barely got home without cherry lights and the searchlight. It took us a while to get started that night,…
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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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My Apocrypha 11: Servant’s Garden
Gonna get through this one as fast as I can. Try to make you understand why Servant is the way he is. Try to show you the most important thing in his young life and how it was taken from him. He doesn’t really want to talk about it. Never has wanted to talk about…
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My Apocrypha 6: The Connected Guy
I didn’t go to my Senior prom. I felt trapped by Mary into going with her and I couldn’t make myself do it. Prom night I spent at Harvard’s house playing Dungeons and Dragons and stick fighting. After the game, we turned off every light in his house and hid. He stayed downstairs with Brett…
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My Apocrypha 4: Urinate and Defecate
It’s hard for me to explain the effect it has on the house when a child has been molested and the authorities have been called. I’m talking about the effect on the house, not the effect on the person who made the call, or the child who’s been hurt. It’s the rest of the house.…
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My Apocrypha 3: Jasmine’s Scarf
This is the story of a broken girl crumbling. This is the story of a single garment. This is a story about Ronin, I guess, and a driveway. This is a story of the Waynesville High School Mafia. The Mafia was started by accident, I guess. A slip of the tongue made by an, at…
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My Apocrypha 2: Goof on the Roof
Goof on the Roof was a Waynesville-St. Robert phenomenon. I’m not sure how many of you people remember this, you people who were there in ’89. It was in the paper, in the ads. There was commercial time bought from the radio station, KJPW. They played country, country & western, and me and Less always…
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