Michelle Ross
Michelle Ross’s most recent book, Don’t Take This the Wrong Way, a story collection she cowrote with Kim Magowan, was published by EastOver Press in March 2025. Ross is also the author of the story collections There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You (Moon City Press, 2017), Shapeshifting (Stillhouse Press, 2021), and They Kept Running (UNT Press, 2022). Her work is included in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and the Norton anthology, Flash Fiction America.
Reading List
Simulacrum
When the car is close, Duff waves. The approaching car slows to a stop. The driver, a teenage girl a few years younger than Duff, lowers her window barely three inches. “I have pepper spray,” she says.