An innocent at depravity central

"My shy, naive blogging buddy cuts loose"

I had just started blogging, which is a great way of getting your thoughts out there if no one wants to pay you for it. I had set myself up as a down-to-earth cookery guy, keeping things simple and cheap,...

Jerry’s Mother

"A tourist and I come to an arrangement about his wife"

It was the kind of Caribbean island where rich Americans came to retire. Don’t ask me where they got their money from; I thought everybody was struggling these days, but apparently not. So, you’d see these old couples around the...

Forget Beauty, It’s Overrated

"Dowdy, prim, but it's what's inside a woman that counts"

The worlds of love and porn are obsessed with beauty, or that modern catch-all adjective: hot. If you’re not good looking and sexy in a conventional way, you’re nothing. That is particularly unfair to women who are neither blessed with...