Eliza Smith

The few insomniac shoppers must have barely covered the cost of keeping the lights on. Still, I reveled in the quiet and volunteered for late shifts, untangling necklaces and wiping fingerprints from mirrors, feeling like a mannequin come to life. 

Eliza Smith, who lives in Missoula, Mont., is special projects editor at Lit Hub and the co-editor of the essay anthology, “Sex and the Single Woman.”