we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…

At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...

I stayed five days and nights. Then I couldn’t get it up any more. Joanna drove me to the airport. She had bought me a new piece of luggage and some new clothing. I hated that Dallas-Fo...

for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there

a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.

unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant

The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...

after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,

A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...

these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…

I finally, got a day off, and you know what I did? I got up early before Joyce got back in and I went down to the market to do a little shopping, and maybe I was crazy. I walked through...

at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town

kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…