Jesse Teller

Tag: Smilin Jack

  • Write Like a Gangster, Class 6: The Shadow of the Imposter

    Write Like a Gangster, Class 6: The Shadow of the Imposter

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    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…

  • 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 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…

  • Stick a Needle in My Eye

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    It had me jumping at first. Twitched a lot. Gasped a lot. I would run, cry out. When the hallucinations hit me, I was about 11 years old. Just started fifth grade. You can read about that night in a blog called Strong Urge to Fly that I posted here a few years ago. It…

  • The Round Table 28: Mark Part 2

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    Here we are again. In a fantasy book I haven’t published yet, these two young warriors are escaping an enemy, and they approach a bridge, and the leader yells out, “I’m gonna do it again!” The other one says, “You won’t be happy til you get us killed.” And then they both jump over the…

  • Rise of the Tellers 19: The Coming of Adam

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    Hello my name is Tier-ti na-mun. I was asked by my master to come and try to explain to you what happened in 2011 that made everything possible. I am here then to tell you about the coming of Adam. I am here to tell you about how the mind was gathered and mastered. For…

  • Rise of the Tellers 18: Acceptance

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    Sit down we have a lot to do in this chapter and we need to get started now. We are going to start in the Wasteland. I have to show you how eight years after the Battle of Normal Street, Assassin finally found peace. Now it is dark in the Wasteland and there is nothing…

  • Rise of the Tellers 16: Eldest

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    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,…

  • Aftermath Guardian’s War 12: A Trip Through Hell

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    Dungeons and Dragons became a tool. Not right. A path. Again not exactly it. Maybe a blade? Yeah, let’s go with that. Dungeons and Dragons became a blade that I used to lance all my blisters and festering wounds. It was about 2002 when it began to mean something else. It took shape in the…

  • Aftermath Guardian’s War 9: Shade

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    He shifted out and Siren set a plate of Hamburger Helper in front of him. He looked around and did not know where he was. He looked at the chair he sat on, the bed with the sheets he had slept on for a while, and he saw the TV, the stereo, and the coffee…