By Anne Garréta, from Not One Day, which was published this month by Deep Vellum. Garréta is a French novelist and a member of the Oulipo. Not One Day chronicles her sexual encounters with women. Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan.

X had a story to tell you. She had found herself one night in a car with a half dozen students. One among them recounted that in the women’s self-defense class at her gym there was a professor, and this professor was incredibly cool, exciting, and French.

You asked the name of your admirer. X didn’t know.…