Laura Picklesimer’s debut novel, Kill for Love, was the winner of Launch Pad’s 2021 Prose Competition and of the 2020 Book Pipeline: Unpublished Contest. She was the grand prize winner of Enizagam Journal’s 2018 Fiction Contest, received third place in the 2021 Rougarou Fabulism & Speculative Fiction Contest, and was a finalist for the 2018 Speculative Literature Foundation Diverse Worlds Grant. Laura teaches English at Chaffey College, in Rancho Cucamonga, California. She is currently at work on a speculative fiction collection focused on climate change and artificial intelligence.
July/Aug 2022
Madeline
Keep them safe. The sentence has become a chant, one that beats so hard in Priscilla’s chest she likes to imagine the singular desire courses through her blood, running her […]