Kid Stardust On The Porterhouse (1968)
Story (1968)
Excerpt
Kid Stardust On The Porterhouse
my luck was down again and I was too nervous at this time from excessive wine-drinking; wild-eyed, weak; too depressed to find my usual stop-gap, rest-up job as shipping clerk or stock boy, so I went down to the meat packing plant and walked into the office. haven't I seen you before? the man asked. no, I lied. I'd been there 2 or 3 years before, gone through all the paper work, the medical and so forth, and they had led me down steps, 4 floors down and it had gotten colder and colder and the floors had been covered with a sheen of blood, green floors, green walls...
Appears in Books
- The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories - 1983, pg. 8
- Erections, Ejaculations and General Tales of Ordinary Madness - 1972, pg. 8