I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…

she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…

Lila Jane was a girl my age who lived next door. I still wasn’t allowed to play with the children in the neighborhood, but sitting in the bedroom often got dull. I would go out and walk...

I forget the beginning time. 6 or 7 p.m. Something like that. All you did was sit with a handful of letters, take a streetmap and figure your run. It was easy. All the drivers took much...

There was another German Shepherd. It was hot summer and he came BOUNDING out of a back yard and then LEAPED through the air. His teeth snapped, just missing my jugular vein. “OH JESUS!...

I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and

he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…

I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this

I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Sti… “What did he do when you told him… “We were sitting across from each… “What happened?”

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with

listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind bl… trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the… bed...

our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.