places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notic… that?

I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...

In the morning I heard her walking arou… It was about 10:30 a.m. I was sick. I d… She shook me. “Listen, I want you to ge… “So what? I’ll screw her too.” “Yeah,” she laughed, “yeah.”

I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...

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…

I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...

and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...

he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

she left me 5 weeks ago and went to Utah… that is, I think she left. the other day I went out to mail her a l… and I saw her sitting on the bus stop be… it was her hair there

“So you couldn’t hold a job for a week?” We were eating meatballs and spaghetti.… “What happened? Why did they can your a… I didn’t answer. “Henry, answer your father when he speak…

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall