title: Fifty Sheds Damper: A Parody
author:  C. T. Grey 
description: <b>C. T.Grey</b> is the author of the <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling<i>Fifty Sheds of Grey </i>and <i>Three in a Shed</i>.
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  An Experiment in Misery  
    
  
  
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  # An Experiment in Misery
  
  
  ### Stephen Crane
  
  
  
  
  
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  It was late at night, and a fine rain was swirling softly down, causing the
  pavements to glisten with hue of steel and blue and yellow in the rays of the
  innumerable lights. A youth was trudging slowly, without enthusiasm, with his
  hands buried deep in his trousers pockets, toward the downtown places where
  beds can be hired for coppers. He was clothed in an aged and tattered suit,
  and his derby was a marvel of dust-covered crown and torn rim. He was going
  forth to eat as the wanderer may eat, and sleep as the homeless sleep. By the
  time he had reached City Hall Park he was so completely plastered with yells
  of "bum" and "hobo," and with various unholy epithets that small boys had
  applied to him at intervals, t