Anna C. Kelley has most recently had work published in Epicenters, Midscapes, and Art and Ethos. She teaches writing and literature at a liberal arts university in Dubuque, Iowa, where she is also the director of the Tenth Muse, a journal of prose, poetry, and art. This summer will be Anna’s first as a wife, gardener, and beagle owner. While assembling these factoids, a hornet planted a big stinger into the back of her shoulder and she plans to do the same to a character in her next short story.