After dinner we came back and we talked. She was a health food addict and didn’t eat meat except for chicken and fish. It certainly worked for her. “Hank,” she said, “tomorrow I’m going...

But, there were still bits of action. One guy was caught on the same stairway that I had been trapped on. He was caught there with his head under some girl’s skirt. Then one of the girl...

she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch.

Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street

Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...

I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...

Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...

When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...

the ladies of summer will die like… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the

what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light

The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...