Tag: short-stories
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Spanish State
1 New York was a grey failure. Every morning the windows were sooted over with the sediment of the night before, so that a man would have to clean his window with a rag if he wanted to see the rest of the city with its stained brick and grimed windows. The skyscrapers darkened by…
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Frying Oil
Betty Johnson’s problem was that all the boys wanted to hump her. That sure included me, because Betty Johnson had a body that put dirty thoughts in any boy’s head. Girl looked like she had walked out of a pinup into our little flyspecked part of nowhere Georgia. Should not have had a problem because…