#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I get too many phone calls. they seek the creature out. they shouldn’t.
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
I kept the date in mind. It was never any problem creating a split with Lydia. I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the st...
invent yourself and then reinvent… don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent… and stay out of the clutches of medioc…
I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate
I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...
At 3:30 a.m. my twelve hours were… I set the alarm so that I would b… “What happened, Hank? We thought… “I’m quitting.” “Quitting?” “Yes, you can’t blame a man for wa…
let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
yesterday drunken Alice gave me a jar of fig jam and today she whistles
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...