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…

naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves

you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,

you with long hair, legs crossed h… the bar, you like a butcher knife… as the nightingale sings elsewhere… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as

she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite

the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.

liked D . H. Lawrence he could get so indignant he snapped and he ripped with wonderfully energetic sentenc… he could lay the word down

When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...

You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...

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...

he came to the door one night wet… terrorized white cross-eyed tailless cat took him in and fed him and he sta… grew to trust me until a friend dr…

when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.

well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,