

Toni Ann Johnson in her office where she wrote the short story “Time Travel” from her forthcoming short story collection LIGHT SKIN GONE TO WASTE. Behind me was a window faced the backyard. My wooden desk was a rust color with a panel of green in the front. The textured walls were yellow and there was green trim on the windowpanes and doors and the curtains were green. This office used to have a green faux suede chair.

Where did you do most of your writing for this fiction work? And please describe in detail. It was the first short story I’d ever written and submitted and it was the first to be published. This is not an experience that’s ever happened again. When I finished this version, I sent the story out and it was accepted almost immediately, meaning within a couple of days. I’d written an earlier version that I threw out back in 2008 while I was in graduate school. I don’t normally write that fast, but I’d been thinking about it for a number of years. I remember that the writing of it came together fairly quickly, within a week to ten days. It was published in February 2013 and as I recall it came out shortly after I’d written it. I wrote the piece back in late 2012 or early 2013. What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? It was so long ago, I don’t actually remember the exact date.
