We, Adults
Elliot Svendson has returned to her childhood Minnesota home to lick her wounds after catching her professor husband between the legs of one of his grad students. Leaving behind a promising academic career, she finds herself raising her five-year-old son solo and working at a Talbot’ s in the mall to make ends meet. It’ s there that she meets Madison Johnson, a young man with a penchant for skateboards, weed, and older women. What Elliot doesn’ t know is that Madison is only seventeen years old. When Madison and Elliot’ s affair is exposed, the news sends shockwaves that will rock their lives and the lives of those around them.
Peter Stenson is the author of the novels Fiend (Random House), Thirty-Seven (DZANC), and The Sexual Lives of Suburbanites (forthcoming from Jackleg Press). He has stories and essays published in The Sun, Bellevue Literary Review, The Greensboro Review, Confrontation, Harpur Palate, and Post Road, among others. He teaches writing at Colorado State University.