Jackson Tel Writes
@jacksontelwrites.bsky.social
Always Something New
Historical fiction with a whimsical twist and a touch of the paranormal in historical settings with dangerous social undercurrents.
Historical fiction with a whimsical twist and a touch of the paranormal in historical settings with dangerous social undercurrents.
"Never forget," the Master of Guards droned to the recruits. In the EMPORIUM, the Numbered Levels come before the Lettered Levels."
Three Guardian recruits were sitting before him, each an individual in their own right.
Three Guardian recruits were sitting before him, each an individual in their own right.
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 AM
"Never forget," the Master of Guards droned to the recruits. In the EMPORIUM, the Numbered Levels come before the Lettered Levels."
Three Guardian recruits were sitting before him, each an individual in their own right.
Three Guardian recruits were sitting before him, each an individual in their own right.
January 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Free Serial Stories by Jackson Tel
As of today, all SERIAL STORIES are free until finished and published in book or audiobook form.
TINY and WAYWARD STORIES remain free individually.
Published NOVELS, AUDIOBOOKS, and ANTHOLOGIES are for sale.
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Free Serial Stories by Jackson Tel
As of today, all SERIAL STORIES are free until finished and published in book or audiobook form.
TINY and WAYWARD STORIES remain free individually.
Published NOVELS, AUDIOBOOKS, and ANTHOLOGIES are for sale.
online.fliphtml5.com/vqcix/ozbd/
December 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Free Serial Stories by Jackson Tel
As of today, all SERIAL STORIES are free until finished and published in book or audiobook form.
TINY and WAYWARD STORIES remain free individually.
Published NOVELS, AUDIOBOOKS, and ANTHOLOGIES are for sale.
online.fliphtml5.com/vqcix/ozbd/
Free Serial Stories by Jackson Tel
As of today, all SERIAL STORIES are free until finished and published in book or audiobook form.
TINY and WAYWARD STORIES remain free individually.
Published NOVELS, AUDIOBOOKS, and ANTHOLOGIES are for sale.
online.fliphtml5.com/vqcix/ozbd/
The man who lived on Route 50 in the Eastern Shore of Maryland made birdhouses, which he displayed on the wall of this workshop shed in view of the passing drivers on the highway.
December 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The man who lived on Route 50 in the Eastern Shore of Maryland made birdhouses, which he displayed on the wall of this workshop shed in view of the passing drivers on the highway.
It's a learning process. Let's see if this new book cover design #5 is more attractive to readers.
December 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's a learning process. Let's see if this new book cover design #5 is more attractive to readers.
Result for ChatGPT-Bing-AI Model- MAMmage-1
Create an illustration set in 1906 St. Louis showing a handsome college-aged man riding a tandem bicycle with his part-Cherokee, part-Black lover on the way to a picnic.
Create an illustration set in 1906 St. Louis showing a handsome college-aged man riding a tandem bicycle with his part-Cherokee, part-Black lover on the way to a picnic.
December 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Result for ChatGPT-Bing-AI Model- MAMmage-1
Create an illustration set in 1906 St. Louis showing a handsome college-aged man riding a tandem bicycle with his part-Cherokee, part-Black lover on the way to a picnic.
Create an illustration set in 1906 St. Louis showing a handsome college-aged man riding a tandem bicycle with his part-Cherokee, part-Black lover on the way to a picnic.
These results came from ChatGPT/Bing - DALLE-3
December 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
These results came from ChatGPT/Bing - DALLE-3
Here's another result in the same style, using Adobe Firefly with Gemini 2.5 (w/ Nano Banana).
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Here's another result in the same style, using Adobe Firefly with Gemini 2.5 (w/ Nano Banana).
I'm experimenting with AI to generate illustration ideas for my serial novel, The Black Jellybeans EPISODE ONE.
Here is Genspark.
Create an illustration set in 1906 St. Louis showing a handsome college-aged man riding a tandem bicycle with his part-Cherokee, part-Black lover on the way to a picnic.
Here is Genspark.
Create an illustration set in 1906 St. Louis showing a handsome college-aged man riding a tandem bicycle with his part-Cherokee, part-Black lover on the way to a picnic.
December 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I'm experimenting with AI to generate illustration ideas for my serial novel, The Black Jellybeans EPISODE ONE.
Here is Genspark.
Create an illustration set in 1906 St. Louis showing a handsome college-aged man riding a tandem bicycle with his part-Cherokee, part-Black lover on the way to a picnic.
Here is Genspark.
Create an illustration set in 1906 St. Louis showing a handsome college-aged man riding a tandem bicycle with his part-Cherokee, part-Black lover on the way to a picnic.
Piney Point Lighthouse
In 1821, a lightship was stationed in the area where the Piney Point Lighthouse now stands to mark the dangerous shoals at Piney Point, 14 miles up the Potomac River from the Chesapeake Bay.
The Piney Point Lighthouse was built in 1836.
cheslights.org/piney-point-...
In 1821, a lightship was stationed in the area where the Piney Point Lighthouse now stands to mark the dangerous shoals at Piney Point, 14 miles up the Potomac River from the Chesapeake Bay.
The Piney Point Lighthouse was built in 1836.
cheslights.org/piney-point-...
December 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Piney Point Lighthouse
In 1821, a lightship was stationed in the area where the Piney Point Lighthouse now stands to mark the dangerous shoals at Piney Point, 14 miles up the Potomac River from the Chesapeake Bay.
The Piney Point Lighthouse was built in 1836.
cheslights.org/piney-point-...
In 1821, a lightship was stationed in the area where the Piney Point Lighthouse now stands to mark the dangerous shoals at Piney Point, 14 miles up the Potomac River from the Chesapeake Bay.
The Piney Point Lighthouse was built in 1836.
cheslights.org/piney-point-...
Punctuation Saves Lives
A Surreptilian note from Dalena Faith, editor of The Chestnut Point Stories:
A Surreptilian note from Dalena Faith, editor of The Chestnut Point Stories:
December 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Punctuation Saves Lives
A Surreptilian note from Dalena Faith, editor of The Chestnut Point Stories:
A Surreptilian note from Dalena Faith, editor of The Chestnut Point Stories:
Today’s addition to The Glossary of Enigmatic Phenomena is “Surreptilian,” a portmanteau of “surreptitious” and “reptilian.”
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Today’s addition to The Glossary of Enigmatic Phenomena is “Surreptilian,” a portmanteau of “surreptitious” and “reptilian.”
New cover design added to The Black Jellybeans EPISODE ONE
Visit The Chestnut Point Stories Flipbook Library
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Visit The Chestnut Point Stories Flipbook Library
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December 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
New cover design added to The Black Jellybeans EPISODE ONE
Visit The Chestnut Point Stories Flipbook Library
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Visit The Chestnut Point Stories Flipbook Library
fliphtml5.com/bookcase/uvz...
The original Oriole Park at Greenmount Ave & 29th St. opened in 1914 (as Terrapin Park, later renamed Oriole Park V) and hosted the Baltimore Orioles until a fire in 1944 destroyed it
Photos of Oriole Park on Greenmount Avenue and 29th Street in Baltimore, Maryland
Photos of Oriole Park on Greenmount Avenue and 29th Street in Baltimore, Maryland
December 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The original Oriole Park at Greenmount Ave & 29th St. opened in 1914 (as Terrapin Park, later renamed Oriole Park V) and hosted the Baltimore Orioles until a fire in 1944 destroyed it
Photos of Oriole Park on Greenmount Avenue and 29th Street in Baltimore, Maryland
Photos of Oriole Park on Greenmount Avenue and 29th Street in Baltimore, Maryland
The Baltimore Orioles never won a World Series at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, built in 1992. However, they clinched the 1983 series in Philadelphia and Camden Yards. Their last title was in 1983 at the old Memorial Stadium.
December 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Baltimore Orioles never won a World Series at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, built in 1992. However, they clinched the 1983 series in Philadelphia and Camden Yards. Their last title was in 1983 at the old Memorial Stadium.
Andreas Liebe, a Jewish tobacco trader from New York (formerly New Amsterdam), traveled to Benedict Town for a longtime supplier's wedding. There, he came upon a traveling theater group rehearsing The Merchant of Venice. He interrupted to demonstrate how to portray Shakespeare’s Jew authentically.
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Andreas Liebe, a Jewish tobacco trader from New York (formerly New Amsterdam), traveled to Benedict Town for a longtime supplier's wedding. There, he came upon a traveling theater group rehearsing The Merchant of Venice. He interrupted to demonstrate how to portray Shakespeare’s Jew authentically.
Q: If you drop a newly bloody telephone in the woods in autumn, will dried leaves and twigs become stuck on the sticky, drying blood when found?
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Q: If you drop a newly bloody telephone in the woods in autumn, will dried leaves and twigs become stuck on the sticky, drying blood when found?
Harvard Health Publishing
How to Splint a Fracture
For a lower arm or wrist fracture (left), carefully place a folded newspaper, magazine, or heavy piece of clothing under the arm. Tie it in place with cloth ties.
How to Splint a Fracture
For a lower arm or wrist fracture (left), carefully place a folded newspaper, magazine, or heavy piece of clothing under the arm. Tie it in place with cloth ties.
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Harvard Health Publishing
How to Splint a Fracture
For a lower arm or wrist fracture (left), carefully place a folded newspaper, magazine, or heavy piece of clothing under the arm. Tie it in place with cloth ties.
How to Splint a Fracture
For a lower arm or wrist fracture (left), carefully place a folded newspaper, magazine, or heavy piece of clothing under the arm. Tie it in place with cloth ties.
EPISODE TWO
Chapter One
251212-A
Concerned about Jim's swollen, blue-tinged, obviously painful left forearm, Dr. Anna Beale, a former college girlfriend, applied the brakes to slow her bicycle and ordered him to STOP."
Chapter One
251212-A
Concerned about Jim's swollen, blue-tinged, obviously painful left forearm, Dr. Anna Beale, a former college girlfriend, applied the brakes to slow her bicycle and ordered him to STOP."
December 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
EPISODE TWO
Chapter One
251212-A
Concerned about Jim's swollen, blue-tinged, obviously painful left forearm, Dr. Anna Beale, a former college girlfriend, applied the brakes to slow her bicycle and ordered him to STOP."
Chapter One
251212-A
Concerned about Jim's swollen, blue-tinged, obviously painful left forearm, Dr. Anna Beale, a former college girlfriend, applied the brakes to slow her bicycle and ordered him to STOP."
1780s-George Washington's Mount Vernon dining table showcased a lavish spread with roasted meats (pork, beef, mutton, fowl), garden vegetables (cabbage, peas, artichokes), hominy, and a dessert course with tarts, ice cream, nuts, and fresh/dried fruits, alongside drinks like wine, ale, and beer.
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
1780s-George Washington's Mount Vernon dining table showcased a lavish spread with roasted meats (pork, beef, mutton, fowl), garden vegetables (cabbage, peas, artichokes), hominy, and a dessert course with tarts, ice cream, nuts, and fresh/dried fruits, alongside drinks like wine, ale, and beer.
1908, Baltimore
The night after Ida's father died, his despondent Saint Bernard,Eight, lying at the foot of her bed, farted. The dog jumped up and spun around to look as if something had nipped at its butt. Ida, grieving and unable to sleep, rose to open the window. The relationship was new.
The night after Ida's father died, his despondent Saint Bernard,Eight, lying at the foot of her bed, farted. The dog jumped up and spun around to look as if something had nipped at its butt. Ida, grieving and unable to sleep, rose to open the window. The relationship was new.
December 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
1908, Baltimore
The night after Ida's father died, his despondent Saint Bernard,Eight, lying at the foot of her bed, farted. The dog jumped up and spun around to look as if something had nipped at its butt. Ida, grieving and unable to sleep, rose to open the window. The relationship was new.
The night after Ida's father died, his despondent Saint Bernard,Eight, lying at the foot of her bed, farted. The dog jumped up and spun around to look as if something had nipped at its butt. Ida, grieving and unable to sleep, rose to open the window. The relationship was new.
The Logline
from Tel's Four-Part Story Structure
(coming soon)
from Tel's Four-Part Story Structure
(coming soon)
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The Logline
from Tel's Four-Part Story Structure
(coming soon)
from Tel's Four-Part Story Structure
(coming soon)
The horses pulling Baltimore's 19th-century Arabber vegetable wagons were sturdy and versatile, often ponies or smaller draft types like Morgans, American Saddlebreds, or sturdy mixed breeds, chosen for their ability to navigate city streets, carry heavy loads, and work long hours.
Morgan Horses
Morgan Horses
December 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The horses pulling Baltimore's 19th-century Arabber vegetable wagons were sturdy and versatile, often ponies or smaller draft types like Morgans, American Saddlebreds, or sturdy mixed breeds, chosen for their ability to navigate city streets, carry heavy loads, and work long hours.
Morgan Horses
Morgan Horses
Paraphrased from Wikipedia
An arabber is a street vendor selling fruits and vegetables from a colorful, horse-drawn cart. Once a common sight in American East Coast cities, only a handful of arabbers calling out to attract customers still ply the streets of Baltimore.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabber
An arabber is a street vendor selling fruits and vegetables from a colorful, horse-drawn cart. Once a common sight in American East Coast cities, only a handful of arabbers calling out to attract customers still ply the streets of Baltimore.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabber
December 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Paraphrased from Wikipedia
An arabber is a street vendor selling fruits and vegetables from a colorful, horse-drawn cart. Once a common sight in American East Coast cities, only a handful of arabbers calling out to attract customers still ply the streets of Baltimore.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabber
An arabber is a street vendor selling fruits and vegetables from a colorful, horse-drawn cart. Once a common sight in American East Coast cities, only a handful of arabbers calling out to attract customers still ply the streets of Baltimore.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabber
I added some detail to the opening of EPISODE TWO specifically so I could talk about Baltimore's "Arabbers." They were unique horse-drawn fruit and vegetable vendors who served the city since the early 19th century, evolving from a diverse trade into a distinct African-American tradition.
December 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I added some detail to the opening of EPISODE TWO specifically so I could talk about Baltimore's "Arabbers." They were unique horse-drawn fruit and vegetable vendors who served the city since the early 19th century, evolving from a diverse trade into a distinct African-American tradition.