#AmericanWriters
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car
has been going on for some time. there is this young waitress where… at the racetrack. how are you doing today?” she asks… winning pretty good,” I reply.
after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,
this Friday night the Mexican girls at the Catholic… look especially good their husbands are in the bars and the Mexican girls look young
Back at Chelsey High it was the same. One group of seniors had graduated but they were replaced by another group of seniors with sports cars and expensive clothes. I was never confronte...
That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline. “You ever tried this stuff?” Joanna had some paints and brushes and paper spread on the table. Then I remembered she was an art...
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
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
R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…