#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
I was back in L.A. about a week and a half. It was night. The phone rang. It was Cecelia, she was sobbing. “Hank, Bill is dead. You’re the first one I’ve called.” “I’m so glad you came ...
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
There are sketches on the walls of… and outside a large green bus swer… insanity sprung from a waving line… says the radio, and Jane Austin,… “I am going to do her portrait on…
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh
The next night Bobby and Valerie came over. They had recently moved into my apartment building and now lived across the court. Bobby had on his tight knit shirt. Everything always fitte...
when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.
I was coming home from classes down Westview hill. I never had any books to carry. I passed my exams by listening to the class lectures and by guessing at the answers. I never had to cr...
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
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
hey, said my friend, I want you to… Hangdog Harry, he reminds me of y… and I said, all right, and we went… this cheap hotel. old men sitting around watching
I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...
I stayed five days and nights. Then I couldn’t get it up any more. Joanna drove me to the airport. She had bought me a new piece of luggage and some new clothing. I hated that Dallas-Fo...
I got in the shower and burned my balls last Wednesday. met this painter called Spain, no, he was a cartoonist,