Jesse Teller

Tag: Uncle Wrath

  • My Apocrypha 23: Pocket Change

    My Apocrypha 23: Pocket Change

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    I don’t remember how the idea was posed to me. I was six, and it is in the nature of a Mocking Man to collect things. I started with matchbox cars, but there were far too many of these to get them all. Then I moved to books. I wanted books about magic. And I…

  • My Apocrypha 11: Servant’s Garden

    My Apocrypha 11: Servant’s Garden

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    Gonna get through this one as fast as I can. Try to make you understand why Servant is the way he is. Try to show you the most important thing in his young life and how it was taken from him. He doesn’t really want to talk about it. Never has wanted to talk about…

  • My Apocrypha 6: The Connected Guy

    My Apocrypha 6: The Connected Guy

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    I didn’t go to my Senior prom. I felt trapped by Mary into going with her and I couldn’t make myself do it. Prom night I spent at Harvard’s house playing Dungeons and Dragons and stick fighting. After the game, we turned off every light in his house and hid. He stayed downstairs with Brett…

  • 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…

  • The Sin Eater 27: Long Live the King

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    I sometimes wonder what Stone would have done. When we found out that Grasp was molesting children, when Stone found out Grasp was molesting his grandchildren, what would he have done? I do not know. I cannot say, but if he had made that call, things would have been different. In the face of pleasing…

  • The Sin Eater 26: Rabbits

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    “Just let me lay here for a minute. Trashy’s trying to make me scare everybody off. I just need to lay here long enough for her to leave. I don’t want everybody to leave. I want to be right here. On this bed. Next to you,” Artist whispers to Bekah. A floppy drunken hand plops…

  • The Sin Eater 24: The King is Dead

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    No one ever to my knowledge touched his medicine tray. We all knew where it sat. There was a kinda wide hallway that went from the front of the house to the back. Off that hallway was the tiny bathroom. Right as you entered it, to the left sat a chest of drawers. On top…

  • The Sin Eater 22: Aunt Breezy Part 2

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    “She was at her mom’s the other day and I had a girl lined up,” Uncle Ball said. “Got a babysitter. Girl was only 15 but a piece of ass. I looked at her and smiled and said, ‘You sucking dick yet?’ She kinda squirmed a little and nodded. I wanted to see what she…

  • The Sin Eater 21: Two Devils

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    MSU was beginning to put together a Folklore class when I was there, but I was fighting Guardian’s War and I never got to take it. This is my attempt. See, folklore as I know, it is an oral tradition. A tradition where the Storyteller can move and shift the story as they want. It’s…

  • The Sin Eater 20: The Porch

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    It went on. I started to dread seeing him at times. Sometimes I would call him just to see what he was doing. He would come over and talk, or we would go for a ride. Things would be good for a while. He would be funny. I would see him in there again. Then…