Here are five decadent things worth sharing:

Word of the Week

grotesquerie (noun)
grō-ˈte-skə-rē
: something that is grotesque: fanciful, bizarre, or incongruous. Something departing markedly from the natural, the expected, or the typical. Example sentence: Born Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man was exhibited as a sideshow grotesquerie.

Contes cruels (cruel tales) are stories that focus on the dark side of human behavior—on aberrant bodie...