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Traders
A two-bit trading caravan, a young man serving as lead guard for little more than meals. Traveling from one small, poor village to the next, barely making enough to survive.
The lead guard is young—too young. He's determined on a better life, but will his lack of maturity keep him from attaining it? Will he cause too much unthinking harm to others on the way?
What trade-offs will he have to make?
The lead guard is young—too young. He's determined on a better life, but will his lack of maturity keep him from attaining it? Will he cause too much unthinking harm to others on the way?
What trade-offs will he have to make?
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Published December 25, 2025
About the author
Kevin Wade Johnson
34 books5 followersKevin Wade Johnson began writing fiction in the 1970s, and began getting serious about it in the following decade, becoming a quarter-finalist in the fourth-quarter 1988 Writers of the Future contest.
Fiction had to take a back seat to his thirty-year career within the Defense Department. After five years of active duty in the military, he went from being one of NSA’s premier writers of intelligence reports to becoming a historian in the Center for Cryptologic History. In his over 30 years of government service, he became proficient in four languages; certified as adjunct faculty for nine different courses; created over 100 internal web pages, over 80 entries on the internal blog Write Right, more than 40 training videos (also not publicly available), and numerous brown bags and workshops; finally, he created a National Cryptologic School course (two more were under consideration when he retired from the civil service in 2015).
An expert at journalistic style, he also learned and took to heart Information MappingTM techniques. He became a "legend" at teaching how to write clearly and comprehensibly from complex, confusing, and even contradictory information.
He capped off his tenure by writing The Neglected Giant: Agnes Meyer Driscoll, the free, award-winning, published biography of a pioneering codebreaker. Before retirement he had a short story published in a regional anthology; not long after, and then since retiring, he has self-published numerous novels, novellas and collections, all of which are free ebooks. For ten years he posted thought pieces, free fiction and more at kevinwadejohnson.blogspot.com; most of these articles have been moved to ebooks.
Those ebooks and the others are at http://self.gutenberg.org/Authors/Kev....
The son of noted genealogist and classics teacher Arta F. Johnson, he grew up in central Ohio, and is a graduate of Whetstone High School in Columbus and Ohio University in Athens.
Fiction had to take a back seat to his thirty-year career within the Defense Department. After five years of active duty in the military, he went from being one of NSA’s premier writers of intelligence reports to becoming a historian in the Center for Cryptologic History. In his over 30 years of government service, he became proficient in four languages; certified as adjunct faculty for nine different courses; created over 100 internal web pages, over 80 entries on the internal blog Write Right, more than 40 training videos (also not publicly available), and numerous brown bags and workshops; finally, he created a National Cryptologic School course (two more were under consideration when he retired from the civil service in 2015).
An expert at journalistic style, he also learned and took to heart Information MappingTM techniques. He became a "legend" at teaching how to write clearly and comprehensibly from complex, confusing, and even contradictory information.
He capped off his tenure by writing The Neglected Giant: Agnes Meyer Driscoll, the free, award-winning, published biography of a pioneering codebreaker. Before retirement he had a short story published in a regional anthology; not long after, and then since retiring, he has self-published numerous novels, novellas and collections, all of which are free ebooks. For ten years he posted thought pieces, free fiction and more at kevinwadejohnson.blogspot.com; most of these articles have been moved to ebooks.
Those ebooks and the others are at http://self.gutenberg.org/Authors/Kev....
The son of noted genealogist and classics teacher Arta F. Johnson, he grew up in central Ohio, and is a graduate of Whetstone High School in Columbus and Ohio University in Athens.
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