#AmericanWriters
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...
first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over… but you flew high to bomb the peop… you never saw it,
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.
It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
I was hungover again, another heat spell was on—a week of 100 degree days. The drinking went on each night, and in the early mornings and days there was The Stone and the impossibility ...
my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of
the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,
starving there, sitting around the… and at night walking the streets f… hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to me, maybe it was,
she drives into the parking lot wh… I am leaning up against the fender… she’s drunk and her eyes are wet w… “you son of a bitch, you fucked me… didn’t want to. you told me to kee…
I cut the middle fingernail of the… finger right hand real short and I began rubbing along her cunt
the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now
the best often die by their own ha… just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody
am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...