"A Learned Man," by Melinda Brasher

My story, "A Learned Man," appears in the May 31 issue of Electric Spec.  It's based on a 2-page folk tale I read in a small-town library one day in El Salvador, when I was tired of sightseeing.  I wrote most of the rough draft in the pleasant square there in Ahuachapan.

 What a pretty place to write a creepy story. 

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