he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood

A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...

here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about

On Thanksgiving Iris prepared the turkey and put it in the oven. Bobby and Valerie came over for a few drinks but they didn’t stay. It was refreshing. Iris had on another dress, just as...

I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy

Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...

in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...

boy, don’t come around here tellin… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and insid… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but…

at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a

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