Heather Wells Peterson earned her MFA from the University of Florida in 2014. Her work has appeared, or will appear, in Nat. Brut, The Collagist, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, among others. She currently lives in Vermont.
Whenever Joanna heard the drone of the phone hanging up, she regretted not hanging up first. Yet, every time, she stayed on the line, just in case he had one more thing to say.
