I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...

A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...

Dee Dee had a place in the Hollywood Hills. Dee Dee shared the place with a friend, another lady executive, Bianca. Bianca took the top floor and Dee Dee the bottom. I rang the bell. It...

had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

the lair of the hunted is hidden in the last place you’d ever look and even if you find it you won’t believe

we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…

think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...

he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes

One night I was coming around the corner after sneaking down to the cafeteria for a pack of smokes. And there was a face I knew. It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed with under The Sto...

in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down