Issue 6

March 2026

Prudence Pennywhistle’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandniece, a Miniaturist in Her Own Right, Sends an Annoying Admirer a Tiny Gold-leaf Framed Painting of Her Bust Tucked Inside a Handmade Knotty Pine Box and Wrapped with a Red Grosgrain Ribbon

            ~ after Beauty Revealed, Sarah Goodridge

by Mikki Aronoff

Charles, I reveal to you my voluptuous rack. Admonitions of Up here! shall no longer rumble and chime from my lips as my fingers point first to your ferreting eyes, then mine, your eyes now free to wander up and down my amplitude, sneak peeks at my cleavage, compare me to your mistress and wife. Indulge your puerile need to measure, to cup your hands, mime a balance scale, mind-bounce my melons. But prepare to re-calibrate; I’d hoped the bumps were benign. The surgeon’s scheduled me for Tuesday next. Check the post for another package about a week after that.

Mikki Aronoff

Mikki Aronoff lives in New Mexico, where she writes tiny stories and advocates for animals. She has stories in Best Microfiction 2024/2025 and in Best Small Fictions 2024/2025