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Tamika Thompson is author of The Curse at Hester Gardens. A former journalist and producer, she is also author of Unshod, Cackling, and Naked, which is the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner for Horror, as well as author of Salamander Justice. Her work has appeared in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Interzone, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she hosts her own blog and newsletter, Tamika Talks Terror. Visit her online at tamikathompson.com or on social media @tamikadthompson.

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In the Line of Sight: Personal History, Collective Trauma, and the Making of a Novel

June 18, 2026
Tamika Thompson

When I was four, I picked up a handgun. Playing dress-up in my parents’ bedroom, I tried on my mother’s well-worn heels, draped her sequined blouses over my tiny body,…

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