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...

my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits

I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal

I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and

in the afternoon they lean against one another and you can see how much they like the sun.

the cops want me to come down and… some guy who tried to rape me. I’ve lost the key to my car again;… the key to open the door but not t… to start it.

I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...

sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before

absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,

the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.