Fixing Butterflies

Oliver Miller
5 min readOct 11, 2018

Here is the thing, and it’s surprising, but it’s true: A good friend of ours recently acquired a job working as a butterfly repairman. None of us are sure how he got this new job. Previously, this good friend worked as a jeweler, so he is well-suited for his new job of butterfly repairman; he has good hands, good eyes; hands and eyes that are used to frowning and bending over tiny things, in the dark. And so, now, he works as a repairman of butterflies…

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Oliver Miller

I have an MFA in fiction and have written for many publicatons, including The Huffington Post, AOL, Sundance Channel TV, and The Paris Review Online.