Older, well-built man behind the counter doesn’t see me I look through the darkness of the diner, toward the counter. Behind it is a well-built older man, smiling to himself…

Good-looking waiter kid with pointy ears talks to me “Are you sure I don’t know you from somewhere,” I ask the kid as he walks by my table. “Anything’s possible,…

Night has fallen again, or maybe the daybreak had been just an illusion, some optical trick shimmering outside the window on the horizon that was merely darkness reentering itself as…

“There’s murder afoot, death at hand and evil looking on from nearby.” The Guinea lowers his smooth salacious chin toward the cold summer soup and scoops up a full spoon…

Starring Jack Nicholson Know what I mean? “In a Lonely Place”, “Scarlet Street”, “Sunset Boulevard”, “Out of the Past”… are we purged, or does the corruption of the human soul…

An unsanctioned list by author unknown The degree of scariness for said below author may actually be the opposite of the order in which these flicks have been listed. But…

Again, I make no journal entry – I don’t know why, nor what I’m looking for – M.F. “Gold Diggers of 1933” is billed as a musical, with song and…

Smith regales Cornish with book-burning fable I was in this three-story cafeteria Smith invited me to at the end of Sahaydachnoho and Kontraktova Ploshcha in the Podil district of Kyiv,…

Pull quote: in re Manny Face: “Whatever that green-tinted elf-eared B-actor greaseball is doing, Smith, I don’t like it” “Say, Smith, I’ve got a pre-generate for you.” “Go ahead, shoot.”…

Third person, free indirect speech, omniscient narrator, by unknown The figure looks like Manny Face, but we can’t be sure, since we see him from the back with only an…