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Has it really been so long since I updated here? There’s been precious little writing news to report since the Continue reading →

https://lonprater.com/2024/04/02/icrpg-master-edition-viking-death-squad/

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

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/13/dissident-whispers-one-page-rpg-adventures-in-support-of-blm/

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

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/head-music-honorable-mention-in-years-best-fantasy-horror-18/

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...

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/available-online/

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

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/alamo-rising/

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

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/the-wellmachine-robot-cover-story-at-igms/

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 →

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/your-brain-on-science/

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

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/fresh-air/

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

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/elder-brother-in-strange-aeons-16/

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

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/something-to-hold-the-door-closed-honorable-mention-in-years-best-fantasy-horror-21/

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

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/a-childproof-war-nominated-for-pushcart-prize/

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

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/all-that-remains-is-the-middle/

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

https://lonprater.com/2020/07/12/legwork/

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

https://lonprater.com/2014/08/08/heart-of-the-southern-isles/

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

https://lonprater.com/2013/12/28/the-interns-story/

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

https://lonprater.com/2013/12/27/the-hound-dogs-in-the-bougainvillea/

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

https://lonprater.com/2013/12/20/the-american-in-his-season/

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 →

https://lonprater.com/2013/12/15/the-island-of-jayne-grind-a-satire-of-selfishness/

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

https://lonprater.com/2013/12/10/that-time-we-saved-the-planet/

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

https://lonprater.com/2013/12/05/roads-like-these/