Ayla Zuraw-Friedland Ayla Zuraw-Friedland is a literary agent in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in GAY the Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, and the Cape Cod Poetry Review.

Tiny Beasts | Fiction

Ayla Zuraw-Friedland

Global warming was fucking up the squirrels. It was of course fucking everything up — the new and improved Boston Seaport would be underwater in twenty years, and the mosquitos were leaving particularly nasty welts. But special attention was on the squirrels. Higher-than-usual temperatures were fermenting the berries they ate off the trees and getting them so drunk they lost their sense of balance. They dented the roofs of cars...