Alena Dillon is the author of the humor collection I Thought We Agreed to Pee in the Ocean. Her work has appeared in publications including Slice Magazine, The Rumpus, The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review, Bustle, and Rkvry Quarterly. She teaches at Endicott College and St. Joseph’s College, and lives in MA with her husband and their dog. “Lucia” is an excerpt from a novel she is shopping to agents about a gritty nun who goes against church doctrine to protect the women under her care.