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July/Aug 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 4 |

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 system, automating her when she wakes up each day, and powering each move, every decision she makes.

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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debut novel, Kill for Love, was the winner of Launch Pad’s 2021 Prose Competition and of the 2020 Book Pipeline: Unpublished Contest.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.

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