CB Anderson (cbanderson.net) loves rock-hounding, magenta, little black dresses, snow, scotch, and the stories of Mavis Gallant. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, Flash Fiction Forward, Brevity, The Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Boston Magazine and elsewhere. A collection, River Talk (C&R Press) was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014. She lives with her family outside Boston.