escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you

feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine

16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young

The next night Bobby and Valerie came over. They had recently moved into my apartment building and now lived across the court. Bobby had on his tight knit shirt. Everything always fitte...

unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant

That summer, July 1934, they gunned down John Dillinger outside the movie house in Chicago. He never had a chance. The Lady in Red had fingered him. More than a year earlier the banks h...

“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...

this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls