Author: Teetler

  • A First Draft: Station 11-½

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    Chapter 5 of Photograph, Part II             Feeling returns in waves. First in the chest, then up to the head and down to the hips. Eventually the legs and feet return, as do the arms. The hands remain missing. I am warm, but it isn’t the fluid, cacophonous warmth of frozen death. The air too… Read more

  • The Art of Empathy

    This won first place for “First Chapter of a Novel” in my high school writing contest back in 2017. While I’ve done basically nothing with the story since then, the character of Theresa has remained important to my writing. The Art of Empathy I The light wiggled its way into the room through the spaces… Read more

  • The Road Lies

    I walk along the empty road, and wonder Why the silence roars like thunder. There’s nothing in sight but the road and me Where’s the world I used to see? Ten hundred miles I thought were ahead When suddenly I saw instead Clutched in the light, this long road seemed Much smaller than I had… Read more