#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer
Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...
sometimes you climb out of bed in… I’m not going to make it, but you… remembering all the times you’ve f… you walk to the bathroom, do your… in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my,…
But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...
my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she’d sit down to dinner and she’d have gas.
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
probably from the belly button or… bed, or maybe from the mouth of th… the car crash on the avenue that l… scattered on the grass. she comes from love gone wrong und…
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes