I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...

the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

The next day we picked up some of her stuff at this motel. There was a little dark guy in there with a wart on the side of his nose. He looked dangerous. Hector was sitting on the edge ...

had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

The 5th grade was a little better. The other students seemed less hostile and I was growing larger physically. I still wasn’t chosen for the homeroom teams but I was threatened less. Da...

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed

I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold

there waas a rock-and-mud slide on the Pacific Coast Highway and… detour and they directed us up int… and traffic was slow and it was ho… we were lost.

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades

first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over… but you flew high to bomb the peop… you never saw it,

he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my t… everybody was waiting for the main… drinking beer, and I was thinking

I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal