A Drawn out Seduction
At high school Dick Smith leaned he didn’t have a name that came to the lips suggesting heroic qualities. Everyone laughed when his beautiful English teacher and aspiring novelist, Ulyssa Ipswich-Carlton, used his appellation as an example of a name an author might use ‘to project the image of a simpleton drifter chewing a straw while scratching’. Dick had laughed along with everyone else of course but internally seethed and eliminated Miss Ipswich-Carlton from his short list of females he...