Monday, November 16, 2009



She had no business being
so damned smart and
so damned sexually attractive
at the same time.
One or the other was fine.
A man could understand that
and cope with it.

Brett Halliday
A Redhead for Mike Shayne
1964

Monday, November 9, 2009



His eyes were dimming crescents,
straining upward into the starred
night sky,
as if trying to make out, to visualize,
some phantom face that no one else
could see.
And what is love anyway but the
unattainable,
the reaching out toward an illusion?

Cornell Woolrich
Rendezvous in Black
1948

Monday, November 2, 2009



She knew how.

Marvin H. Albert
Devil in Dungarees
1960