I cut the middle fingernail of the… finger right hand real short and I began rubbing along her cunt

sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.

Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...

in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind t… yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the ine…

The next night as they moved the group from the main build– ing to the training building, I stopped to talk to Gus the old newsboy. Gus had once been 3rd-ranked welterweight contender b...

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 ...

re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat

he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.

a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats u… and run inside to the pavilion

I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,