Steve Warford

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“Press Delete to Reset” by Steve Warford

Submitted to Contest #184

Abraham Wilson, celebrating his ninetieth birthday with friends, joked that he didn’t feel a day over eighty. Then, with much protest from the group celebrating with him, he picked up the dinner check.“Oh no you don’t,’ said one of the friends. We’ll get that.”“Not on your life, guys. This has been a great evening and it’s on me." Then he pulled out his wallet, selected a credit card and handed it, along with the bill, to the waiter who went off to work his magic on the touch-screen adjacent to the little w...

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“What Problem?” by Steve Warford

Submitted to Contest #184

“Mission Control, Capistrano One” crackled the real-time voice link for a routine training mission on orbit around the moon. “Go ahead, Capistrano One,” responded Mission Control. “Houston, we have a problem.” A sleepy-eyed overnight crew that had been fighting to remain vigilant at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX rose in unison with drill team precision. A pregnant pause ensued a...

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Author bio

Steve is a retired engineer with an eclectic career in the aerospace, healthcare, education, and military sectors. In retirement, he wrote Heirs to the Legacy, a generational memoir of those who followed the Greatest Generation. From there, under the pen name of Murt Gibson, he experimented with other fictional genre, producing entertaining and educational reads for kids, young adults, and others. His Space Force America series tells the story of the real U.S. Space Force, tweaked into the future. The Davis Kids Series is a bold venture into the world of STEM education and entertainment in the vein of The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.