I met Spencer Ellsworth in 2005 when we were classmates at Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. His fiction is gripping and compelling.
Spencer is the winner of the 2009 PARSEC contest. He worked for a literary agent long enough to know he did not want to become one. He pens a monthly column called “Miracle Pictographs” that appears in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.
Spencer’s story for 2020 Visions is the longest in the collection.  This novelette called The Black Plague of our Generation takes up the topic of medicating as a solution to problems–something that is already happening in some public schools today. Spencer mixes this idea with the very human aspect of a broken family to produce a story that is both heart-warming and disturbing.
I believe I read an early version of this story back when I was in a writing group with Spencer.