That summer, July 1934, they gunned down John Dillinger outside the movie house in Chicago. He never had a chance. The Lady in Red had fingered him. More than a year earlier the banks h...

like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as

looking out the window smoking rolled cigarettes drinking Sanka and watching the workers come on in

My father had two brothers. The younger was named Ben and the older was named John. Both were alcoholics and ne’er-do-wells. My parents often spoke of them. “Neither of them amount to a...

in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…

a great white light dawns across t… continent as we fawn over our failed traditi… often kill to preserve them or sometimes kill just to kill.

the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply

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

as the spirit wanes the form

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...

“Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my daughter. She’s 6 years I had a 6-pack of beer. Tammie put it in the refrigerator and came out with two bottles. “My daughter mustn’t see anything....

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

it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind

you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—