around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now

This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...

this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,

We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”

they laugh continually even when a board falls down and destroys a face or distorts a

I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...

the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish

The subs themselves made Jonstone possible by obeying his impossible orders. I couldn’t see how a man of such obvious cruelty could be allowed to have his position. The regulars didn’t ...

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she

But the next morning it was the sa… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing fo… It went on for a week. I sat ther… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the old… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing hi…

A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...

look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car

I watched the board and the 6 drop… after a first flash of 18 from a m… of 12...two minutes to post and a… kept jamming against my back, but… I bet 20 to win and walked out to…