#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
this fear of being what they are: dead. at least they are not out on the s… are careful to stay indoors, those pasty mad who sit alone before the…
Sam the whorehouse man has squeaky shoes and he walks up and down the court squeaking and talking to
had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
To end up alone in a tomb of a room without cigarettes or wine— just a lightbulb
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...
Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...
wha’, what did you expect? a schoo… some more practical lover filling… I’m a fool and no gentleman: I wa… with Crane in pajamas, but suicide… there’s less and less to kill.
I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...
a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.
this one teaches that one lives with his mother and that one is supported by a red… with the brain of a gnat. this one takes speed and has been…
The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...
my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful
re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat
all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.