But the woman walking by the seaside in William Trevor's story would never throw herself into the water. And all things unendurable, in the end, become less so. For that reason, Ursula knew that she and Lillian were going to be all right. In a world of disorder, they would hold onto their positions as two particles of order, against logic perhaps, but true to their intuitions. They met, departed ways, but they would not make this cruel world more senseless for each other. That was Yee Yun Lee reading her story, The Particles of Order. She's been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2003. You can hear more New Yorker fiction read by the authors on New Yorker.com and on the New Yorker apps available from the App Store or from Google Play. On the New Yorker fiction podcast we invite writers to choose stories from the magazine's archives to read and discuss. This month David Sedaris reads Love Letter by George Saunders. You can subscribe to that and other New Yorker podcasts by searching for the New Yorker in your podcast app. Tell us what you thought of this podcast by rating and reviewing The Writer's Voice and Apple Podcasts. This episode of The Writer's Voice is produced by Michelle O'Brien. I'm Deborah Treisman. Thanks for listening. Hi, this is David Remnick, and this year's New Yorker Festival returns October 25th through the 27th. We'll be joined by Rachel Maddow, Sarah Bareilles, Atul Gawande, Seth Meyers, Mohsin Hamid, Audra McDonald, The National, Julio Torres, Ayad Akhtar, and many others. Plus live podcast recordings and panels on politics, literature, technology, and much more. And you can learn all about it at newyorker.com/festival. from PRX.