#AmericanWriters
I’ll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go,
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…
then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.
Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...
the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,
he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his
the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
drunk on the dark streets of some… it’s night, you’re lost, where’s y… room? you enter a bar to find yourself, order scotch and water.
A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night