JWillis’s Substack
John AdamsWith a military and prep school background, I write fiction and memoir.
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Guts
Outside the gates of every Army post in the USA lies a parasitic town whose economy supplies the two commodities all soldiers have required since Hannibal left Carthage: sex and alcohol. Just south of the Fort Campbell reservation, Clarksvi...
The Year I Owned My Name
The Year I Owned My Name
Patriotism was a word we learned early in life, and by “we” I mean the sons and daughters of Army officers who’d fought in World War II. We donned patriotism every day with our fathers’ hand-me-down boot socks the...
First Love
[Happy Mothers’ Day 2026. Here’s a story many young men might identify with, especially those who aren’t sure whether their first girlfriend or their aspiration for a military career was the bigger psychological marker in their lives.]
Fir...
A Bad Buzz
A Bad Buzz
Every two weeks on a Saturday morning Vill would scoop up two dimes and a nickel from his mother’s Wedgewood change saucer on the kitchen counter and walk the fifty yards to the Disciplinary Barracks to get a haircut from a conv...
A Spot in the Rough
A Spot in the Rough
A Short Story by JWillis
Vill had first come to golf by caddying for his dad. He was pulling the cart today for his father, Col. Samuel “Rooster” Smith, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army War College. The other three memb...
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Military brat, West Pointer, Leavenworth KS and western Massachusetts. Taught English 32 years. Written a couple of novels.
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