There was this place. It stretched over the sea, it was built over the sea. An old place, but with a touch of class. We got a room on the first floor. You could hear the ocean running d...

re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat

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

I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money

see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…

I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold

the 3 horse clipped the heels of the 7, they both went down and the 9 stumbled over them, jocks rolling, horses’ legs flung skyward.

John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;

Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...

Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...

Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch