Anna Reeser’s short fiction has been published in The Best American Short Stories 2020, Fourteen Hills, The Masters Review, CutBank, Khôra, and Cimarron Review. She lives north of Los Angeles in her hometown of Ojai, where she works as a copywriter and developmental editor. She has completed a collection of short stories and is working on a novel.
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...