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Lon Prater has served in the Reactor Compartments of USS Enterprise, edited the military’s textbook on arms deal law, kept things safe in the produce and laundry industries, and now helps people find freedom from addiction. He lives, writes, and games in Pensacola, Florida. His fiction has appeared in the Stoker-winning anthology Borderlands 5, Origins Award finalist Frontier Cthulhu, and Writers of the Future.

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Dissident Whispers – One Page RPG adventures in support of #BLM

Thrilled to be able to contribute my time and editing skills to this worthy project! An anthology of 58 original Continue reading →

“The Wellmachine Robot” and “This is My Corporation, Eat” – COVID-Free at IGMS!

NO LONGER BEHIND A PAYWALL! Click the links below… “The Wellmachine Robot” In the last days, the boy’s father left Continue reading →

“Head Music”

“Head Music” originally appeared in the Stoker Award winning anthology Borderlands 5. It earned an Honorable Mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Continue reading →

Older & Free Online

Older Work “Deadglass” in Writers of the Future XXI and Triangulations: Dark Glass “Desperata (Or, The Desiderata of H.P. Lovecraft)” in Dark Faith “Last Rites in Continue reading →

Alamo Rising

Alamo Rising – A Steampunk Zombie Western by Josh Rountree & Lon Prater IF Larry McMurtry, insomniac and feverish, watched The Walking Continue reading →

Your Brain On Science

For the almost 11,000 of you who subscribed to my popular Flipboard magazine Your Brain On Science: Thank you! I’ve mostly Continue reading →

“Fresh Air”

Do you like your horror in small bite-sized chunks? If so, then SLICES OF FLESH from Dark Moon Books will Continue reading →

“Elder Brother” in Strange Aeons #16

  It was a brisk spring morning in Nantes in 1884, and the cathedral bells were ringing. Jules stood again Continue reading →

“Something to Hold the Door Closed”

Origins Award Finalist Anthology This story earned an Honorable Mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #21. As explorers conquered the Continue reading →

“A Childproof War”

This story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthology, “A High Shrill Thump: War Stories,” Continue reading →

“All That Remains Is The Middle”

Published in the companion anthology to the award winning film London Voodoo This thought-provoking anthology presents 12 stories from established and Continue reading →

“Legwork”

The mean streets of north Florida may be desolate rural highways or backwoods dirt roads, but they are no less Continue reading →

“Heart of the Southern Isles”

“Heart of the Southern Isles” is a throwback to Flashing Swords anthologies and 60s and 70s flavored Swords & Sorcery, featuring a Continue reading →

“The Intern’s Story”

22 cards…each an individual splinter of the human psyche. 22 writers…honing each splinter into a story of triumph and decay, Continue reading →

“The Hound Dogs in the Bougainvillea”

Giant apes, detective chimps, astronauts, and missing links collide in APESHIT, a new anthology from the publishers of Big Pulp Continue reading →

The American In His Season

When Teddy Roosevelt imposes strict treason and censorship laws in the name of security, Sam Clemens fights back with a Continue reading →

The Island of Jayne Grind: A Satire of Selfishness

Don’t look for some weak-kneed Ayn Rand or her shrugging Atlas here! Even H.G. Wells’ Dr. Moreau would have a Continue reading →

That Time We Saved The Planet

In the summer before ninth grade, Jazz Carpenter gains dangerous powers when he becomes the new host body for a Continue reading →

Roads Like These

A young man wanders out on the dunes at night, lured by the strange music of a sea creature never Continue reading →

Familiar Cravings

Fill your plate with the grisly novellette “Starvelito” as entree, alongside a smorgasbord of disturbing side dishes for those with Continue reading →

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