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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Joan Silber Reads “Evolution”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Smoking Pot and Brodi's Lawlessness

By may, brodi had finished a year of community college and said he'd had it with school crap. Want a hitch to arizona? He said, wouldn't be hard. It was a good place to live. You'd heard the wide expanse of the desert. We had found a new place to have sex, nina's bedroom, when her parents weren't home. My mother had said she hated seeing me hang all over him like a doting idiot. Did i know how pathetic i looked flinging myself at him? This insult had broken my loyalty to my mother. So i could go wherever i wanted, couldn't i?

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