However, most favored the smaller Chinese style of vessel, which resembled a large junk—three masts with four-sided sails of bamboo matting and spacious quarters for the Captain and his family—with room for ten or twelve cannons. The San Muy Malo was a variation on this basic model, with regular ...
They were half an hour gone and I sat in the easy chair with the warm remains of a beer and my little ten cent Woolworth notebook that fits just about any pocket you care to name. I was making one of my famous lists, the way this cop had taught us in night school. He said there were two kinds of ...
He is able to make ugly something he fears and loathes i.e. a face, breasts, sexual organs etc. 2. It is the mutilation after death, not the act of killing, that frequently brings him sexual satisfaction. 3. This type of satisfaction is onanistic i.e. masturbatory. Only rarely are sexual fluids...
"There's another door," he said, nodding toward the east wall. "That's where they are. I was just thinking about knocking and going in." We walked over and he knocked. He smelled expensive. He was undoubtedly wearing a cologne whose name was something manly. Mountain Musk. Canyon Connection. Stal...
The latest chromed and finned Detroit pleasure mobiles crowded around the structure itself. The smell of grilling burgers, the ragged laughter of three- and four-year-olds, a large portable radio playing Darlene Love’s “(Today I Met) The Boy I’m Going to Marry.” America, of Thee I Sing. Lucy sat ...
I found him in a deserted barn on the edge of town. Somebody had come running to the station house to tell me that something terrible was going on there.His name is Abner. He works as a clerk over at First Bank. Very mild-mannered.When I got there, I found him sitting there in the middle of the b...
Half a dozen waved. I'd never seen any of them before but they reminded me that the twin of small-town suspicion was small-town openness. I saw dogs chase butterflies, bees seek honey, and cats loll in sunlight. Walt Disney would have had all of them singing merry little songs. He had the right i...