John Howard Hatfield

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“That night, I caught Two!” by John Howard Hatfield

Submitted to Contest #276

The date was 9 October, 1965 and, I had just caught two! I was in need of a further plan. You realize that was just over fifty-nine years ago today.A couple of weeks earlier, I had returned home from Wyoming just in time to receive the call to meet in the parking lot across from Guion Hall with the rest of my fish buddies; twenty more guys in the exact same boat I was in—starting college and being a member of the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University. I still wasn’t sure this was the path right for me. I was making good money—more than...

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“Let me tell ya ‘bout Cold” by John Howard Hatfield

Submitted to Contest #232

Let me tell ya ‘bout Cold Cold! You’re cold? Ya think this is cold? Let me tell ya ‘bout cold! So you think you know cold; well you don’t come close. I’m gonna tell you the facts ‘bout cold. As one might think, there are several kinds or degrees of cold: there’s cold, there’s colder, and then there’s COLD. But there is a degree of cold that goes where no other cold has been. I have seen, felt and survived it, I want you to know. Survived them all at one time or another. So just hang in there and I’ll tell you all ya need to know. ...

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“The Snack Man Cometh” by John Howard Hatfield

Submitted to Contest #228

Man, can this guy eat! He never seems to slow down. I have no idea where he’s putting it all. I just happened to have come across the greatest snack eater I’d seen in the past forty years. At the time, my wife was the Vice President of Human Resources for a credit union organization in Austin, Texas and as such, she attends a conference every now and then to remain up on the latest trends. One summer, one of the board of directors recommended that she attend the HR conference taking place in Maui; literally forcing a brochure into her ...

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Author bio

John Howard Hatfield, the author of “There’s a Moose in the Guard Shack – Adventures in every day Leadership” plus many short stories, is a retired materials management and manufacturing professional with over forty years in the military and manufacturing arenas. He spent time at sixty plus posts while in the military and has traveled to all fifty states (working in twenty-two of them). Howard earned a Masters from Central Michigan, a MS from the U.S. Army C&GS College, and a BBA from Texas A&M. He has more olive drab shirts than his wife wishes and enough hats to wear a different one every day of the year. He, wife Patsy, plus his two dogs reside in Austin, Texas.