Tag: Shadow
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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 15: Plot
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Darkness of Slinger Middle School Part 2” chapter from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The assignment from Class 12 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom of the assignment. Plot’s…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 8: Revision
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “The Tome” chapter from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The assignment from Class 5 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom of the assignment. Digging a Grave I’m not gonna…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 7: Critiques Prep
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Home” chapter from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The short story assignment from Class 1 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 think we have to…
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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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Write Like a Gangster, Class 4: Sitting Down to Write
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Pig” and “Rising Winds” chapters from Teardrop Road. Procrastination They say about procrastination that you’re only hurting yourself. That’s not true. They say about procrastination that it’s easy to handle and you should just do it, whatever the it is. It’s not true. Procrastination is like…
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My Apocrypha 26: The White Pipe
And here we are. The White Pipe story. I have been dreading this one. I didn’t really have a plan for this chapter, except that I needed to drop on a sword for a manager that didn’t respect me. I need to stab Mary’s eyes out. Needed to be scared to death by a blood-curdling…
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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 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…
Jesse Teller 