John Thornton Williams, Author at Witness

John Thornton Williams

John Thornton Williams has studied creative writing at the University of Wyoming, Hollins University, and the University of Tennessee, and was a recipient of the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. He grew up on a cattle farm in Chattanooga and likes to think that he's an above-average pool player.

Graveyard

By John Thornton Williams

Fiction•Vol. XXVII No. 3 (Winter 2014)

The heart rate monitor sounded while Martha was working graveyard. Alone in the nurses’ station, she jerked upright in her chair. The beeping had broken the quiet. She’d been playing solitaire, eating cornflakes from a styrofoam bowl. Her hands gravitated to the bump forming at her navel, as had become her habit. The heart rate… [Read More]