#AmericanWriters
the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn
One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...
she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,
drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.
She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
this head like a saucer decorated with everything as lip to lip we hang in mechanical joy; my hands blaze with arias
Within a day or two, about 1 pm in the afternoon there was a knock at my door. It was a painter, Monty Riff, or so he informed me. He also told me that I used to get drunk with him when...
Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...
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 ...
I have just spent one—hour—and—a—h… handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poem… well, they’ll just have to wait
Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing: