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Scott William Carter can be found online at his website: www.scottwilliamcarter.com and at Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scottwilliamcarter.com. Scott’s first novel was hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “touching and impressive debut” and won an Oregon Book Award. Since then, he has published dozens of books across a wide range of genres and styles. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Analog, Ellery Queen, Pulphouse, Weird Tales, The Los Angeles Review, and other places. Since none of that apparently keeps him busy enough, he’s also the cartoonist behind the Run of the House comic strip. In his latest for Asimov’s, a troubled married