He sees her on a train out of Roma Street—a Goth girl with an emo vibe.  He has just five stops—maybe less—to pull the trigger and say something to her.  Will he or won’t he?

Penned in the trashy style of classic pulp fiction, Dean Kyte—full-time flâneur and part-time ladies’ man—plants his tongue firmly in his cheek as he gives the Hammett treatment to this true story lifted from the pages of his journal.

The hardboiled style applied to the tale of a fumbling pick-up gives this short story both a comic and a touchingly romantic tone.

Self-consciously trashy this ‘adult picture book’ liberally illustrated with classic pin-ups and cheeky cartoons may be, but “Things we do for Love” is not your usual trashy romance.

Featuring 48 full-colour pages slapped between a flexible, high-gloss cover, “Things we do for Love” is a work of ‘artisanal pulp fiction’—a genuine collector’s item not only written by Dean Kyte but also designed and illustrated by him to look as though every page has come hot off the roller of some Shakespeare of sleaze’s typewriter.