#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.
I read last Saturday in the redwoods outside of Santa Cruz and I was about 3/4's finished when I heard a long high scream and a quite attractive
I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...
I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb
I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...