Mary Alice Dixon lives in Charlotte, NC, where she volunteers with hospice. She has been an attorney and a professor of architectural history who taught in China, North Carolina, and Minnesota. Her recent work is in, or forthcoming from, Kakalak, Main Street Rag, Mythic Circle, Capsule Stories, That Southern Thing, County Lines, Stonecoast Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Passager's Pandemic Diaries, Pine Song Awards: 2021, and elsewhere.