Jon Butters

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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“Called to Duty” by Jon Butters

Submitted to Contest #122

Called to Duty With a muted BINK-bonk the ring around the small speaker turned a pulsing yellow, indicating an incoming notification. Agatha Freeman sat on a high stool pushed up against the island in the middle of her kitchen, her laptop opened in front of her and a large mug of hot black coffee off to her right. The morning sun filtered through the window over the sink and played itself in a wedge across the dark granite island top. Agatha was scrolling through her emails, left thumb dragging down the rectangular trackpad, and she took a l...

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“Present of Future Past” by Jon Butters

Submitted to Contest #120

Doug sat in the coffee shop, phone out on the Formica table, white paper cup of hot coffee nearby as the snow lodged between the treads of his worn tan Army-issued boots melted onto the shop’s tiled floor. Across the table from him sat an identical paper cup, that one though was a black dark roast; much different than his extra creamed, four-sugared beverage. He thumbed the power button of his cellphone and the screen lit, displaying the time in large white digital numbers. Five minutes late. Probably wasn’t coming, he thought. And...

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