Jesse Teller

Tag: The Child

  • Write Like a Gangster, Class 17: Character

    Write Like a Gangster, Class 17: Character

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    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…

  • 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 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 5: By the Throat

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    There was a pattern to these things. Job went to work either in the morning or afternoon. He was gone most of the day no matter what. Chanel stayed home with me. Bekah came over around dinner time, stayed for a few hours, and was gone by the time Siren got there at night. Then…

  • Aftermath Guardian’s War 4: Abuser

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    One night we found a new alter, a thing not born of abuse but of learning. He was not damaged, but twisted and wrong. He was not helpful or in need. He wanted things to fall apart. He called himself Char. We called him Abuser. Every Tuesday we got drunk. We would drink all sorts…

  • Aftermath Guardian’s War 1: The Fellow Warrior

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    Let’s do it again, shall we? There’s final pieces moving into place. We have to look at the aftermath of me losing everything in Guardian’s War. How I rebuilt myself, rebuilt a life, and hacked a path through the heart of darkness. This blog blast will be 19 posts long. It’ll take us from six…

  • Guardian’s War 16: The Madness of the Outcast

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    Things are coming to a head now. The forces that warped my life in 2001, led up to Bekah’s and my break up, and brought us to the Battle of Normal Street are all coming together to explode on me and my soulmate at the same time. We could not be ready for it. We…

  • Lost Confessions: Sister

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    Dan put her in a room. He stood in front of the closed door. “I want you to pretend that there is a monster in this room. That monster is hurting your sister, he is hurting her. You have to get through this door to her to protect her. GO!!” Adam ran double fast to…

  • Teth

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    “Are you Jack or are you real?” the beast said. It was sitting on the edge of Job’s bed, its head low, its claws biting deep on the side of the mattress. I was not aware. It was a Tuesday and I had been drinking. Regina and Bekah had gone home to sit by their…

  • The Man in the Dark

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    Job had come home early and found me drunk and weeping. The phone calls had been going all night, and when all was said and done, the whole of the body had passed out except him. When Job walked into the house, the man in the dark bedroom slipped his hand under the blankets and…