red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty

between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and a… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset… it’s strange to be old and not fee… old

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline. “You ever tried this stuff?” Joanna had some paints and brushes and paper spread on the table. Then I remembered she was an art...

I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...

light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

here things are tough but they’re mostly always tough. basically I’m just trying to get a… with the female. when you first meet them their eyes

Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...

sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;

at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb