Joel Miller's girlfriend has locked herself into the bathroom with a pregnancy test. Lisa isn't the love of Miller's life - theirs is a relationship which happened by accident rather than by design - but Miller realises that he might now be bound to her forever.
Lauren Grodstein grew up in New Jersey, and received a BA and an MFA from Columbia University. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Virgin Fiction 2, Ontario Review, Before and After: Stories from New York, and Time Out New York. Her collection of short stories, The Best of Animals was published in 2002 by Persea Books. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
