It’s a deer in the weeds at the side of the road, or maybe a golden lab? Something that makes sense of all that yellow in the late-afternoon sun. Too late, my brain trips over the bright blue shirt, and I’m already...
Sweetie’s a Mess
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Heather Aronson
Heather Aronson’s fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, CRAFT, Mid-American Review, Story, and Witness, as well as in other journals. Her stories have been finalists for the CRAFT Flash Fiction Contest and the Story Foundation Prize, and have twice been nominated for Best Small Fictions. She was the winner of Sonora Review's RAGE contest in Fiction in 2022, and was runner-up for Breakwater Review’s Fiction Contest 2025. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona and was a Fellow in Fiction at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing. She is the Contest Editor for Story Magazine.