in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and

Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...

first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.

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

big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him

Abe Mortenson was had enough to be around but he was just a fool. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make y...

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

this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into

she was in her orange Volks waitin… as I walked up the street with 2 six packs and a pint of sco… and she jumped out and began grabbing the beerbottles…

Our English teacher, Miss Gredis, was the absolute best. She was a blonde with a long sharp nose. Her nose wasn’t much good but you didn’t notice it when you looked at the rest of her. ...

the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...

re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat