Marcus Johnson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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“Thelma” by Marcus Johnson

Submitted to Contest #3

THE POUNDING USUALLY BEGINS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. Muffled, it comes through the windowless walls in short deliberate bursts. They come in patterns of three. However, the time between strikes happen at odd intervals, leaving me unable to estimate when the next series of hits will come. So it leaves me tense, as I wait for each series to blow. Had the pounding happened in some time interval that made sense I think the whole occurrence would have passed me by, possibly even aiding my sleep. But I find myself staring at the my wall from where the...

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“Baby Shoes” by Marcus Johnson

WHAT DO YOU SEE? I see a woman using the public restroom of some department store. She’s locked the door and changing the diaper of a baby wrapped in sheets and newspaper pulled from the trash. The whole time the baby is crying but the woman remains calm, she had done this enough times for her not to react in any other way. The woman herself is dirty, wearing an oversized hoodie and torn skinny jeans. Her face is wrinkled and her hair is falling out, something common for a woman in her older age but, on a woman in her early twenties it looks...

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