she lived in Galveston and was into T.M. and I went down to visit her and we made… continually even though it was very warm weather

sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:30 a.m… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things, we o…

he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...

Sara was preparing the turkey dressing a… The phone rang. I went and got it. It w… “Thank you, Debra. And a happy Santa C… We talked awhile, then I went back and… “Who was that?”

Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...

I went upstairs to 409, had a stiff scotch and water, took some money out of the top drawer, went down the steps, got in my car and drove to the racetrack. I got there in time for the f...

the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives

Then I was called down to personnel at… Then. “Mr. Chinaski?” this voice said. “Yeh,” I said. “Step in.” The man walked me back to a desk. There…

it was Philly and the bartender said what and I said, gimme a draft, Jim, got to get the nerves straight, I’m going to look for a job. you, he said, a job?

We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...