The first time I read Ivy Grimes's Glass Stories (2024), I didn't find much in the way of geographic themes in the pieces. In fact, in one of the first notes I took I wrote that these stories seem to "float" in space and time, not fully located anywhere or anytime we might recognize as our own. But this is only on the surface, and upon revisiting the pieces I found that Grimes is doing much more with the places and spaces her characters inhabit than I initially realized. So, the purpose of this essay is to examine the ways these geographic themes manifest in Grimes’s work.