Jesse Teller

Tag: Steven

  • My Apocrypha 20: Good Church Boy

    My Apocrypha 20: Good Church Boy

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    “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…

  • The Sin Eater 28: Foul Water

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    “Is this what they look like now?” I asked Grandma Mocking. It had been over two years since I had been back to Waynesville to see anyone, and I chose to start my attack here. “Yup, that is them. There is sweet Dewdrop and that is Ball’s Little Man. You would be so proud of…

  • In the Name of the Father 14: Sasquatch 5

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    Therapy is supposed to cost 24 bucks. That is, after Medicare hits it, paying most of it and leaving me with this copay. See Medicare is no joke. It is the best insurance any of us has ever seen. Over the years it has been cut again and again. It is on a butcher’s block…

  • 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,…

  • Rise of the Tellers 13: Wedding, Part 1

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    The first time we planned a wedding, her parents were going to officiate. They were elders in their church and Bekah and her sisters had always dreamt of their dad marrying them. Well this time things were going to be a bit different. We decided on Vigil but not Hymnal. This was not for any…

  • Rise of the Tellers 4: The Knife, Part 1

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    Pizza Hut after therapy. We were doing couples’ therapy to get things set on the right track. One of the important parts of the plan we talked about and put into action the first night we got back together was couples’ therapy. Steven was a counselor with many different abilities and when I asked, he…

  • 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 10: The Sun Worshipper

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    We have to take a minute and look at the things Sunshine is doing in the background here because, damn. After Urgent left, Sunshine jumped to action fast. Within a week she had me in to a family practice doctor for a checkup. I had been gaining weight for a while. Since my suicide attempt…

  • Aftermath Guardian’s War 7: Tower of Pain

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    Two things happened simultaneously in me and Job’s relationship. First was his hate for Siren began to overcome him. He would watch her working us and watch her turning us against the others and he loathed her. Wanted nothing to do with her. When she was at the house and he was there, he would…