But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...

like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth

Bobby and Valerie came by and I introdu… “Valerie and I are going to take a vaca… “No, Bobby, I don’t think so.” “Oh, Hank, please!” said Cecelia. “I j… “Fine,” said Bobby. "We leave this even…

I saw her when I was in the left lane going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.

I went to this place to see a movie on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta

I get too many phone calls. they seek the creature out. they shouldn’t.

“You ought to try to be like Abe Morten… “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my fath… “Don’t you want to be happy, Henry?” as… “Stop feeling sorry for yourself,” said… “What’s going to become of you? How the…

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

I went to my place, started drinking. I snapped on the radio and found some classical music. I got my Coleman lantern out of the closet. I turned out the lights and sat playing with the...

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

My father had two brothers. The younger… “Neither of them amount to anything,” sa… “You just come from a bad family, Daddy… “And your brother doesn’t amount to a da… My mother’s brother was in Germany. My…

a great white light dawns across the continent as we fawn over our failed traditions, often kill to preserve them or sometimes kill just to kill.