#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...
“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...
I am a panther shut up and bellowi… cement walls, and I am angry at bl… evenings without ventilation and I am angry with you, and it wi… like a rose
when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.
smoking a cigarette and noting a m… flattened out against the wall and died as organ music from centuries back… my black radio
old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back
by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls
The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...
I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...
I been readin’ you for a long time… I just put Billy Boy to bed, he got 7 mean ticks from somewhere… I got 2, my husband, Benny, he got 3.
there waas a rock-and-mud slide on the Pacific Coast Highway and… detour and they directed us up int… and traffic was slow and it was ho… we were lost.