#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
he sat naked and drunk in a room o… night, running the blade of the kn… under his fingernails, smiling, th… of all the letters he had received telling him that
Bobby’s wife worked two nights a week and when she was gone he got on the telephone. I knew that on Tuesday and Thursday nights he would be lonely. It was Tuesday night when the phone r...
the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans
I remember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly, and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had to fit the hand-crank into the front...
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
takes lot of desperation dissatisfaction and
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...
the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of
got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she
Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated.
there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone
she’s up seeing my doctor trying to get some diet pills; she’s not fat, she needs the speed… I go down to the nearest bar and w… at 3:30 in the afternoon of a tues…
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break