#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...
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,
she came to my place drunk riding a deer up on the front porc… so many women want to save the wor… but can’t keep their own kitchens… but me...
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
washed—up, on shore, the old yello… out again I write from the bed as I did last year.
It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...
During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...
This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...
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...
then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.
dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon
I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money
long ago he edited a little magazi… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…
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...