you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the

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…

monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…

Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

We continued drinking. Cecelia had just one more and stopped. “I want to go out and look at the moon and stars,” she said. “It’s so beautiful out!” She went outside by the swimming pool...

I was standing in line at the bank… when the old fellow in front of me dropped his glasses (luckily, with… case) and as he bent over

at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees

these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it all is.

When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...

I was hungover again, another heat spell was on—a week of 100 degree days. The drinking went on each night, and in the early mornings and days there was The Stone and the impossibility ...