a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...

“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...

Lila Jane was a girl my age who lived next door. I still wasn’t allowed to play with the children in the neighborhood, but sitting in the bedroom often got dull. I would go out and walk...

3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!

had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a

I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!

The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...

I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...

you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—

Jr. high went by quickly enough. About the 8th grade, going into the 9th, I broke out with acne. Many of the guys had it but not like mine. Mine was really terrible. I was the worst cas...

you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,

he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…