#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
In bed I had something in front o… “Sorry, baby,” I said. Then I ro… Then something awakened me. It wa… “Go, baby, go!” I told her. I arched my back now and then. Sh…
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out,...
the final curtain on one of the lo… musicals ever, some people claim t… seen it over one hundred times. I saw it on the tv news, that fina… flowers, cheers, tears, a thundero…
the kid went back to New York Cit… he met in a kibbutz. he left his mother at the age of 32, a well-kept fellow, sense of h… wore the same pair of shorts
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
I only met one student at City College that I liked, Robert Becker. He wanted to be a writer. “I’m going to learn everything there is to learn about writing. It will be like taking a ca...
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.
it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown
That summer, July 1934, they gunned down John Dillinger outside the movie house in Chicago. He never had a chance. The Lady in Red had fingered him. More than a year earlier the banks h...
eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy
I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels
call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.
We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on 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...
