I got a letter in the mail. It was addressed from Hollywood. Dear Chinaski: I’ve just read almost all your books. I work as a typist in a place on Cherokee Ave. I’ve hung your picture i...

once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass

Our 30 minutes was now devoted to scheme training. They gave us each a deck of cards to learn and stick into pur cases. To pass the scheme you had to throw 100 cards in 8 minutes or les...

cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air

I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with

the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—

When Jonstone saw me the next 5 a.m. he spun in his swivel and his face and his shirt were the same color. But he said nothing. I didn’t care. I had been up to 2 a.m. drinking and screw...

I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks

like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth

another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen

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