Andrew Porter is the author of the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf, 2023) and The Theory of Light and Matter and the novel In Between Days. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received the the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and his work is cited in “100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2007” by Best American Short Stories. Porter lives in San Antonio, where he is an associate professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at Trinity University.

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In Between Days

A Novel Excerpt

by Andrew Porter

“What were we talking about?” Dr. Peterson says.

“When?"

“The last time.”

“I don’t remember.”

“Cadence.”

“I don’t know,” she says. “Honestly.”

“I think we were talking about your husband,” he says, looking through a file on his lap. “At least according to my notes.”

“We might have been,” she says. “I don’t really know.”

The room they’re sitting in is a large, high-ceilinged office with glass walls overlooking the skyline of downtown Houston. The room is aggressively air-conditioned and very white.

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