Pamela Erens

Pamela Erens is a writer who lives in New Jersey. Her novels, which include The Virgins and Eleven Hours, have been finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her latest book, Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life, is a personal meditation on the classic novel by George Eliot.

Illustration of a couple embracing in the window of a subway car

Fiction The Filth issue

Traitors

By Pamela Erens

We wanted death, lots of death, bouquets of death blooming and raining down on us from the tall trees. We were done with cowardice and being control freaks.