Lunch at the Gotham Cafe One day I came home from the brokerage house where I worked and found a letter -- more of a note, actually -- from my wife on the dining room table. L.T.'s Theory of Pets My friend L.T. hardly ever talks about how his wife disappeared, or how she's probably dead, just another victim of the Axe Man, but he likes to tell the story of how she walked out on him. Luckey Quarter 'Oh you cheap son of a bitch!' she cried in the empty hotel room, more in surprise than anger. Autopsy Room Four It's so dark that for awhile -- just how long I don't know -- I think I'm still unconscious. Blind Willie 6:15 AM. He wakes to music, always to music; the shrill beep-beep-beep of the clock-radio's alarm is too much for his mind to cope with during those first blurry moments of the day. The Man in the Black Suit I am now a very old man and this is something which happened to me when I was very young -- only nine years old. |