And All the Girls Were Nude

"And All the Girls Were Nude" by Richard Magruder is a humorous story about Nathanial Evergood, an odd old man who becomes obsessed with taking pictures of naked young women. It teases serious topics like watching people, what's right and wrong, and what happens when someone's weird hobbies go too far in a world that both makes and judges those hobbies. The story tells about Nathanial's careful work on a special camera lens that can see women without their clothes, while keeping it hidden to others. However, things turn bad when Nathanial wears the glasses so much he forgets to wear his own clothes outside. He gets arrested and goes to court. This shows just how strange his actions were and makes fun of how society acts about being proper in public. Through Nathanial's experiences, Magruder questions human behavior, investigates the edges of privacy, and pokes fun at the often dishonest rules society makes up.