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For more than twenty years, Will Ludwigsen’s stories of what he calls “weird mystery” have appeared in places like Lightspeed, Nightmare, Weird Tales, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as several times in Asimov’s. His latest novella, A Scout is Brave, appeared in 2024 from Lethe Press. Will taught genre creative writing at the University of North Florida for five years but now works in corporate education and communications, writing fantasy nonfiction for capitalism by day and fantasy fiction by night for you. For his latest below, he returned to his favorite section of his elementary