Notes of a Dirty Old Man (excerpt from Factotum) (1972)
Story (1972)
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man (excerpt from Factotum)
As a young man I had just found a job in an auto parts warehouse off Figueroa street and I moved to an old roominghouse nearby. It was a typical Los Angeles roominghouse: roaches, mice, shadows, the stink of death . . . The second night I was there somebody knocked on my door. It was a fat woman in her mid-forties...
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Appears in Magazines
- Los Angeles Free Press - no. 405, April 21-27 1972
- Arete - vol. 2, no. 1, July/August 1989