#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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...
had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:
near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their
I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...
The flies are angry bits of life; why are they so angry? it seems they want more, it seems almost as if they are angry
she left me 5 weeks ago and went t… that is, I think she left. the other day I went out to mail h… and I saw her sitting on the bus s… it was her hair there
it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain
I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten
There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...
absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,
Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...
The drilling and squeezing continued for weeks but there was little result. When one boil vanished another would appear. I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a...
and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps