call it th e green house effect or what… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of the depression era.

The phone rang the next morning. Lydia had gone back to her place. It was Bobby, the kid who lived in the next block and worked in the porno bookstore. “Mindy’s down here. She wants you...

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat

It was about a week later around 7 a.m. I had lucked into another day off and after a double workout, I was up against Joyce’s ass, her asshole, sleeping, verily sleeping, and then the ...

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

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

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don’t hav… sit there looking like that.

I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...

the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its

I only met one student at City College that I liked, Robert Becker. He wanted to be a writer. “I’m going to learn everything there is to learn about writing. It will be like taking a ca...

That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...

got out, fellow said, “hey!” walked towa… me, we shook hands, he slipped me 2 red tickets for free car washes, “find you l… told him, walked on through to waiting area with wife, we sat on outside bench.