#AmericanWriters #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...
murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood
I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
never even in calmer times have I ever dreamed of bicycling through that
the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its
he sat naked and drunk in a room o… night, running the blade of the kn… under his fingernails, smiling, th… of all the letters he had received telling him that
3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!
I kept the date in mind. It was never any problem creating a split with Lydia. I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the st...
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 had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...
we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit
it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain
the elephants are caked with mud a… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care