the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and

sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water

the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side

The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...

Lila Jane was a girl my age who lived next door. I still wasn’t allowed to play with the children in the neighborhood, but sitting in the bedroom often got dull. I would go out and walk...

she’s up seeing my doctor trying to get some diet pills; she’s not fat, she needs the speed… I go down to the nearest bar and w… at 3:30 in the afternoon of a tues…

The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,

she left me 5 weeks ago and went t… that is, I think she left. the other day I went out to mail h… and I saw her sitting on the bus s… it was her hair there

This will refer to the letter addressed to you dated August 17, 1969, proposing your suspension without pay for three days or other disciplinary action, based on Charge No. 1 specified ...