#AmericanWriters
Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...
Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...
now more and more all these people running around wearing the American Flag Shirt and it was more or less once assum… think but I’m not sure)
I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the
is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown
I went to my place, started drinking. I snapped on the radio and found some classical music. I got my Coleman lantern out of the closet. I turned out the lights and sat playing with the...
We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...
I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...
The subs themselves made Jonstone possible by obeying his impossible orders. I couldn’t see how a man of such obvious cruelty could be allowed to have his position. The regulars didn’t ...
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...
There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...
I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,