Camille Bordas reads her story “Most Die Young,” from the January 2, 2017, issue of the magazine. Bordas has published two novels in France, "Les Treize Desserts" and "Partie Commune.” Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” will be published in August.

“Within the hour, he’d packed and left, and, although it’s true that things hadn’t been great between us for a while—we’d run out of things to say to each other, and our silences were, frankly, boring—I would have appreciated a little notice, a little time to get used to the idea of breaking up before the breakup’s implementation.”