the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives

let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…

Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody beat on the door. I let Tammie in. She sat down and I opened a couple of beers. “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two bad teeth. You can’t kiss me...

women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.

take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him

Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street

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...

my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful

I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...

lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.

After dinner we came back and we talked. She was a health food addict and didn’t eat meat except for chicken and fish. It certainly worked for her. “Hank,” she said, “tomorrow I’m going...

I kept the date in mind. It was never any problem creating a split with Lydia. I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the st...