#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
I didn’t see Lydia for a couple of days, although I did manage to phone her 6 or 7 times during that period. Then the weekend arrived. Her ex-husband, Gerald, always took the children o...
stuck in the rain on the freeway,… these are the lucky ones, these ar… dutifully employed, most with thei… as possible as they try not to thi… this is our new civilization: as m…
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...
she drives into the parking lot wh… I am leaning up against the fender… she’s drunk and her eyes are wet w… “you son of a bitch, you fucked me… didn’t want to. you told me to kee…
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.
But, there were still bits of action. One guy was caught on the same stairway that I had been trapped on. He was caught there with his head under some girl’s skirt. Then one of the girl...
they’re not going to let you sit at a front table at some cafe in Europe in the mid-afternoon sun. you do, somebody’s going to