Pit Stop
By Mikki Aronoff
Photo credit: Lê Minh and Enrico Perini.
She cuts the engine and swings down from the cab like a spider monkey flying through rainforest. She thrives on heights, but she’s running out of diesel and there’s that hot date with a trapezist seven exits away. As the hose snakes, the station attendant inside rubbernecks the pictures she’s painted on the side of her truck — things aloft: kestrels, Cessnas, wind-tousled leaves. Things higher in the sky: clouds, comets, stars.
“That’s some collection you got there,” he grins, floating untethered from his perch behind the safety glass, swiping her card and rolling his eyes upwards till the whites ignite.
About the Author
Mikki Aronoff’s work appears in New World Writing, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Tiny Molecules, The Disappointed Housewife, Bending Genres, Milk Candy Review, Gone Lawn, Mslexia, The Dribble Drabble Review, The Citron Review, and elsewhere. She’s received Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best American Short Stories, and Best Microfiction nominations.
