half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

But the next morning it was the sa… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing fo… It went on for a week. I sat ther… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the old… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing hi…

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;

The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...

My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

I have seen an old man around town… carrying an enormous pack. he uses a walking stick and moves up and down the streets with this pack strapped to his bac…

There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...

there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me

the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds