"Mikki Aronoff lives in New Mexico, where she writes tiny stories and advocates for animals. She has stories in Best Microfiction 2024 and in Best Small Fictions 2024 and upcoming in Best Small Fictions 2025.” To learn more about Mikki, you can catch up with her at Facebook.
“I’ve got the ennuis,” he says rummaging through my utensil drawer, his words slowing like cold molasses. He finds the vegetable peeler, eyeballs the blade for dried up bits of carrot. “I do wash my dishes,” I tell him. “And you don’t strip the skin off dried figs. That’s just dumb.” Two years ago, my brother started showing up on… Read more →
The sign says Smokey Bill’s Home for Wayward Reptiles. Dad and I dart through tall grass, dodge alligators grown fierce and left to wither in parking lots. Clumsy tortoises lumber by. We’re rehoming Freddy Furcifer for a one-time fee. Tears run down Dad’s cheeks as he unhooks the cage from the Buick’s back seat. A lizard on a leash. He’s… Read more →