The Grapes of Wrath
Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled worried eyes, with restless eyes... In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by a weight of numbers of little worried men,...
Identity
...in a world where our every move is monitored and recorded, where in department stores cameras watch you, where people constantly jostle you, where a person cannot even make love without being quizzed the next day by researchers and polltakers (where you make love?...
Less Than Zero
One day i saw a boy i had gone to the school with, maybe first grade, standing by the fence, alone, fingers gripping the steel wire and staring off into the distance and i told myself that the guy must live close by or something and that was why he was standing alone,...
Desolation Angels
Because whether you murder or not, that's the trouble, it makes no difference in the maddening void which doesn't care what we do - all we know is that everything is alive otherwise it wouldn't be here - the rest is speculation, mental judgements of the reality of the...
I couldn’t say if…
i couldn't say if the warmth on my lips is from your breath, or the coffee i've been drinking to stay awake with you.