Wilt by Robert Cherry

A biting farce about a meek college lecturer trapped in an oppressive marriage whose private fantasies of violence take on alarming plausibility when his domineering wife vanishes; bumbling police work, bureaucratic absurdities, and a series of escalating misunderstandings turn his attempts to stay inconspicuous into a chaotic scramble to prove his innocence, exposing the hypocrisies of small‑town life and academic pretensions.

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