#AmericanWriters
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.
I can’t have it and you can’t have it and we won’t get it so don’t bet on it
Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—
welcome to my wormy hell. the music grinds off-key. fish eyes watch from the wall. this is where the last happy shot… fired.
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money
The next night as they moved the group from the main build– ing to the training building, I stopped to talk to Gus the old newsboy. Gus had once been 3rd-ranked welterweight contender b...
The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...
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
So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...
Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business