#AmericanWriters
my friend William is a fortunate m… he lacks the imagination to suffer he kept his first job his first wife can drive a car 50,000 miles
They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,
We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...
One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...
Lydia had two children; Tonto, a boy of 8, and Lisa, the little girl of 5 who had interrupted our first fuck. We were together at the table one night eating dinner. Things were going we...
Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...
see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…
Jane, who has been dead for 31 yea… never could have imagined that I would write a scre… days together and
Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...
my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she’d sit down to dinner and she’d have gas.
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)
no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while