{"id":32252,"date":"2020-04-06T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/?p=32252"},"modified":"2021-03-07T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T21:04:48","slug":"transcendental-tale-teller-meet-jason-meuschke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/06\/transcendental-tale-teller-meet-jason-meuschke\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcendental Tale Teller: Meet Jason Meuschke at WormholeRiders Roundtable!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back, WormholeRiders<\/a> and Writing Lovers!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We are excited to present this WormholeRiders Roundtable, part of the WHR YouDecide Series, featuring interviews of several Science Fiction and Fantasy writers. Many thanks to Gary Morgenstein<\/a> for this WormholeRiders\u2019 exclusive interview with Jason Meuschke<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jason Meuschke, author of Nine-Mile Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ghost stories have been around since as far back as Homer\u2019s Odyssey<\/strong><\/em>, when Odysseus was haunted by Elpenor<\/a>, the specter who visits Odysseus and tells him to get his behind back to the Island of Circe and give his body a proper burial.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tales of this sort paint ghosts with personality and a clear purpose (in this case, a disembodied spirit wants to see his body respectfully dispatched), but other stories leave us wondering about what motivates the spirit realm. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We question if it is even possible to experience visitations from entities on the spiritual plane. We wonder if they can possibly impact us in our mortal reality, and if they can, whether we can ever know their reason why.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Our fascination with stories that explore what lies \u201con the other side\u201d of mortal life has continued since Homer\u2019s time, and they will never stop fascinating us. Writer Jason Meuschke<\/a> is not only captivated by the subject, but in his book Nine-Mile Bridge<\/a><\/strong><\/em> he weaves his own tale about a bridge, an accident, and a strange set of events that suggest that something from beyond is calling into the mortal realm, and that there is a connection between this recent tragedy and some unfinished business from long ago.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jason Meuschke is a natural storyteller, but he is also a person of broad interests. He is retired from a career in the US Air Force. He is an avid bass fisherman and outdoorsman, a podcaster, a husband, a father and grandfather.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jason brings all the experiences of his life to his crafting of characters and the settings he creates for his stories. He grew up in Missouri, home of the eponymous 9 Mile Bridge which bears a dark legend suffused in a sad history as a hanging bridge, where black slaves were once executed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We interviewed Jason recently to learn more about what inspires him. We were interested in learning where he got many of the ideas he put into his story, told around the central character, Holli. She has suffered the death of her boyfriend and finds herself thrust into a series of events that are bewildering, supernatural, and dreadfully sinister.<\/span><\/span>
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