Tag: Mentor
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 10: Oral Storytelling
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “In View of the Dead” and “The Man on the Bridge” chapters from Teardrop Road Tell the story orally Telling the story orally will help you figure out where the stresses are. When you tell a story orally, you have an audience and you can look…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 3: Point of View
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “The Prince of Darkness” chapter from Teardrop Road. Class Storytelling Imagine you’re writing the story of this class, and you are telling the story from your point of view, my Grad Student’s point of view, or my point of view. Your Point of View As a student,…
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Rise of the Tellers 17: The Younger
Ten months earlier we were watching Rayph play on the floor in our living room and Bekah looked at me with sadness on her face and motioned to him. “He looks lonely,” she said. I looked at him and in that moment she was right. He did look lonely. I had known he would. When…
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Rise of the Tellers 16: Eldest
Christmas 2005 and me and Bekah have opened all of our presents before going to her parents’ house and we look around the house. We look at the tree. We look at each other and we can feel it. There is a gaping hole here. Something is missing from our lives. Someone. Not long after,…
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Lost Confessions: Living Room 3
Alright, I am almost positive the guy’s name is Patron. I talked to my landlord again today, this time with Marigold herself. She said there were a lot of mixed signs. One guy (Tony) had dark hair ’til the day he died. One guy (her father, Patron) would be wearing a suit and might be…
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Lost Confessions: Living Room 2
So I asked my landlord. His name is Mentor and he is one of my best friends, my beer drinking buddy and the guy I talk football with. I told him I am seeing a ghost and this good buddy of mine laughed at me. “You been hittin those Millers pretty hard, have you?” he…
Jesse Teller 