he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.

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

I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car

Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...

are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...

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

A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...

The first three or four days at Mears-Starbuck were identical. In fact, similarity was a very dependable thing at Mears-Starbuck. The caste system was an accepted fact. There wasn’t a s...

our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.

vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose