#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...
this Friday night the Mexican girls at the Catholic… look especially good their husbands are in the bars and the Mexican girls look young
I was hungover again, another heat spell was on—a week of 100 degree days. The drinking went on each night, and in the early mornings and days there was The Stone and the impossibility ...
Our English teacher, Miss Gredis, was the absolute best. She was a blonde with a long sharp nose. Her nose wasn’t much good but you didn’t notice it when you looked at the rest of her. ...
never even in calmer times have I ever dreamed of bicycling through that
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the
The flies are angry bits of life; why are they so angry? it seems they want more, it seems almost as if they are angry
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
probably from the belly button or… bed, or maybe from the mouth of th… the car crash on the avenue that l… scattered on the grass. she comes from love gone wrong und…
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: “Chinaski, you got a following in Denver...” “yeah?”