#AmericanWriters
all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3
“What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?” We got into my car and she told me where she lived. We stopped for a couple of big steaks, vegetables, stuff for a salad, potatoes, b...
But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.
he used to sell papers in front: Get your winners! Get rich on a d… and about the 3rd or 4th race you’d see him rolling in on his ro… with roller skates underneath.
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...
While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...
“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...
the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.
Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…