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“Harbor,” by Garth Greenwell | The New Yorker

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Fiction by Garth Greenwell: “It had been months since I had seen the sea, a year, and I was hungry for it.”

Save this story Save this story Audio: Garth Greenwell reads. Even in the dark I liked to look at it, though the sea was never truly dark, even now in the off-season it caught the light of the moon, which hung high and almost full, and of the signs of the few restaurants and hotels that were open in the new town, so that the whole harbor shimmered with points of light. It had been months since I had seen the sea, a year, and I was hungry for it; I had stepped to the edge of the terrace to check my phone but found myself staring at the sea instead. You could lose yourself in it, that was what I

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