Will Johnson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2023

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“A Trace of Love” by Will Johnson

Submitted to Contest #217

A Trace of LoveBefore my castration – years before – I fell in love with a girl.I was fifteen, she was sixteen, a prefect (a short step from perfect, which I thought she was). I was on my way to Biology - I wanted to get there, because I liked Biology - and she stopped me at the top of the Science corridor. She tapped her prefect badge, which sat on the rise of her left breast, and said, “Science corridor's one way now, new rule.”I looked over her shoulder through the glass of the new double doors. The corridor was empty. We were the same he...

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“Michael's Work” by Will Johnson

Submitted to Contest #190

“So, Michael, why do you want to work here?”Michael looked around the high-ceilinged pub; the line of fruit machines, the long bar with deep shelves of glistening spirits, the brasso’d hand pumps. Lights hung from the ceiling and would make the place closer after dark. Two dartboards were hung in the far corner – one with an electronic scoreboard and one with an ashtray of white chalk under a blackboard. Even in the daytime the corner’s light pulled like the end of a tunnel.He saw traffic queuing outside through the tall windows (twice his h...

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“Winter Blues in Spring” by Will Johnson

Submitted to Contest #189

It was so terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark. Yet it was still two hours from sunset and the middle of March. I ask myself, Of all the things I could have done with an able body (to say the least) and a bright mind (probably), why would I choose to farm vegetables and cows at three hundred metres in the north west of England? I slipped as I exited the shed on a patch of mud that was buttercups and rushes when I started growing here, years back. I’d drained the field then, but you wouldn’t know it today, or for most o...

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