Anna Reeser is a fiction writer and freelance fiction editor based in Ojai, California. Her writing has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2020 and published in journals including Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Cimarron Review,CutBank, Khôra, The Masters Review, and Fourteen Hills. Find her at annareeser.com.
Edward Hopper, Eleven A.M., 1926. Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 inches. I’m in the ochre of it, the end of morning. The light is thick, impasto, nearly edible. Across the courtyard I hear a woman singing to someone. What is...