I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…

the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as

a great white light dawns across t… continent as we fawn over our failed traditi… often kill to preserve them or sometimes kill just to kill.

my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits

They had me in the counselor’s office in one of the back rooms of the second floor. “Let me see how you look, Chinaski.” He looked at me. “All right, Mr. Chinaski, we’d like to know whe...

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.

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

he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and

Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...

light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down

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