Susan Levi Wallach — The Monarch Review

Simon Of The Desert – Susan Levi Wallach

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 13:17 — 0 Comments

Simon read the email several times. He stared at it, seeing not the words but the spaces between them, looking at the screen as if it were a newly discovered Caravaggio and he the curator. He stood up and walked to the window, turned around and went back to his desk, where he sat again, looking for the word he was certain was missing. Your wife is having an affair, the message read. A typo, surely, Simon thought. A mistake. The sender must have meant to insert the critical not within that compound verb — Your wife is not having […]