A child approached me last night with outstretched hands. “What are cantharides, Mr. King?” It was everybody’s favorite sidekick, Leather Tuscadero.
Someone had given her some pills. They were capsules.
I had to look it up, too. It is Spanish fly, both the insect and the aphrodisiac. Leather Tuscadero offered me some. Thanks, but, no thanks. I have…