Online

by Joanna Walsh, Danielle Dutton (Foreword)

In this story from Joanna Walsh's collection Vertigo the narrator learns that her husband has been meeting other women online, and copes with this realization with dry wit and intense lucidity.

12 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 20, 2015

About the author

JOANNA WALSH is a British writer. Her work has appeared in Granta Magazine, gorse journal, The Stinging Fly, and many others and has been anthologized in Dalkey's Best European Fiction 2015, Best British Short Stories 2014 and 2015, and elsewhere. Vertigo and Hotel were published internationally in 2015. Fractals, was published in the UK in 2013, and Hotel was published internationally in 2015. She writes literary and cultural criticism for The Guardian, The New Statesman, and others, is edits at 3:am Magazine, and Catapult, and created and runs the Twitter hashtag #readwomen, heralded by the New York Times as “a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers.”

Reviews

[Akylina · Rating 3 out of 5]

A beautifully written short story, though I personally don't agree with this way of dealing with the issue of cheating.