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For so many years it stood majestic, the swankiest joint in town. Gin-soaked men gambled here by night while their wives spent the...

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Back in Atlantic City for his annual convention, Sam looked forward to his yearly lapdance, massage and happy ending, a reward for enduring ...

Recently I was at the bar with my trusty moleskin and pen and there was a woman across the way drinkin' God knows what and annoying ...

While I was at the hotel bar waiting for her to come down (she's always running late), I spoke with Bob the barkeep. Another American, w...

When she came home from being out all night and God only knows where, I heard her flop off those godforsaken fuck-me pumps in that drunken ...

Night after night, I stare at my father’s army shadowbox and hear the crashy high hats and brassy horns of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and the...

At the mall, there was a small child, a little girl who'd just discovered her first fountain. I watched her from the level above, as she...

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