the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.

I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...

We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;

I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...

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

The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...

bet on #6, I try red, I stare at… wonder what Chekhov would do, and… blue plates sit eating the carnage… and look very much like Russians a… my left tit and try to smile like…

The drilling and squeezing continued for weeks but there was little result. When one boil vanished another would appear. I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a...

this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,

there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…

see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered