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.