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

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

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…

Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

I remember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly, and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had to fit the hand-crank into the front...

I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...

16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young

the weather is hot on the back of… which is down at Finkelstein’s who is gifted with 3 balls but no heart, but you’ve got to un… when the bull goes down

my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.

this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these