Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...

take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him

We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”

My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...

half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...

there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone

the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists

Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.

the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the… tray

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.

I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...

monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…