Series 5: Individual Prose Works, 1962-1984, n.d., A-Z

Container Folder Contents Dates
Carton 4 31 “The Ad” n.d.
32 “Added Days” 1984 April 30
33 “Africa Kore” 1979 Oct. 22
34 “After Hesiod” n.d.
35 “The Age of Aquarious Versus the Front Porch of the Ancient Egyptians” n.d.
36 “Aluminum Foil” n.d.
37 “American Dogs: Take a Look at My Life” n.d.
37a “American Hotels” n.d.
38 “America: the Beautiful” n.d.
39 “Another Short Story About Contemporary Life in California” n.d.
40 “Another Texas Short Story” n.d.
41 “An Apartment on Telegraph Hill” n.d.
42 “The Arkansas BB Gun” n.d.
43 “At Least” 1979 Oct. 22
44 “Autumn Cold the Teacher” 1979 Oct. 25
45 “Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven...” n.d.
46 “The Back Door to Job” n.d.
47 “Balance” 1979 Oct. 18
48 “Ballad of the Funeral Parlor Apples” n.d.
49 “The Beautiful Music” 1979 Oct. 23
50 “The Bed Salesman” n.d.
51 “Beowulf Umbrella” 1964 Sept. 2
52 “The Bet” 1979 Oct. 18
53 “A Brief Study in Chocolate Icecream” 1979 Oct. 20
54 “Broken Dishes” 1981 July 28
55 “The California Newspaper Stand” n.d.
Carton 5 1 “ Cancelled” n.d.
2 “Cat Cantaloupe” n.d.
3 “Civil War” n.d.
4 “Coffee” n.d.
5 “Coffee Rent” n.d.
6 “Come Back, Salmon” n.d.
7-9 “The Complete Absence Of Twilight” n.d.
10 “A Constantly Changing Ticket for Passage” 1979 Oct. 20
11 “Construction Workers” n.d.
12 “Contemporary Life in California” n.d.
13 “The Correct Time” n.d.
14 “Counting Myself to Arrive at 120” 1979 Oct. 31
15 “A Couple Novels” n.d.
16 “Cracker Jacks” n.d.
17 “The Deserted Imagination” n.d.
18 “The Dinner Invitation” n.d.
19 “The Dipper” n.d.
20 “Dogs on the Roof” n.d.
21 “Down By the Old Mill Stream” n.d.
22 “The Elevator Down to the Hemingway Stories” n.d.
23 “Empire of Makeup” 1979 Nov. 8
24 “The [End]” n.d.
25 “Escape” n.d.
26 “An Eye for Good Produce” n.d.
27 “The F. Scott Fitzgerald AHHHHHH” n.d.
28 “The Fate of a West German Model in Tokyo: a Journalistic Dream from Japan” n.d.
29 “The Favor” n.d.
30 “A Feeling of Helplessness” 1972 April [20]
31 “A Few Days Ago I Was Thinking About Russ...” n.d.
32 “Fifty-four Serious Mistakes in Punctuation that Can Alter the Memories of Childhood” n.d.
33 “The First Day on the Job” n.d.
34 “Flowers of 1939” n.d.
35 “The Following Three Things Have Something to do with One Another” n.d.
36 “Football” n.d.
37 “The Friendless Little Brewmaster” 1979 Nov. 9
38 “The Frog that Found His Pond” n.d.
39 “The Fur Coat” n.d.
40 “Galaxie of Empties” 1979 Nov. 1
41 “Ghost Stories” n.d.
42 “Gone Before We Open Our Eyes” n.d.
43 “Gone Since Then” n.d.
44 “A Gothic Novel” n.d.
45 “The Great Golden Telescope” n.d.
46 “The Great Wall of California” n.d.
47 “A Gun for a Big Fish” n.d.
48 “The Habitue” n.d.
49 “The Haight-Ashbury Crawdad” n.d.
50 “The Hamburger Dancer” n.d.
51 “The Hanged, the Unemployed, and the Almost Strangled” 1979 Oct. 18
52 “The Hangman” n.d.
53 “Harmonica High” n.d.
54 “Hay on the Water” 1971 Jan.
55 “Heartbeat for a [Bucket]” n.d.
56 “Her Last Known Boyfriend: a Canadian Airman” n.d.
57 “Homage to Bullwinkle Moose” n.d.
58 “The Homecoming” 1979 Oct. 16
59 “House of Carpets” n.d.
60 “How Does it Feel to Be Rich and Famous...” n.d.
61 “I Remember Once Seeing a Movie in Chinatown...” n.d.
62 “I Used to Hunt Pheasants...” n.d.
63 “In Another Country” 1979 Oct. 18
64 “In the Talisman, Looking Out” n.d.
65 “The Instant Ghost Town” n.d.
66 “The Island Cafe” 1962 March
67 “Japan a Fantasy, Japan of Imagination” 1979 Nov. 8
68 “July 28th, 1981 Versus July 28th, 1982” 1981 July 28
69 “Just Friends” 1979 Oct. 23
70 “Kalasbel, Montana” 1979 Oct. 26
71 “Karate Candle” 1979 Oct. 20
72 “Key to the Frogs of South-Western Australia” n.d.
73 “Kitty Genovese-by-the-Sea” n.d.
74 “Largest Shipment of Vinegar Ever Made in the United States” n.d.
75 “Last Chance to Play the Piano” 1979 Nov. 1
76 “The Last of My Armstrong Spring Creek Mosquito Bites” n.d.
77 “Last Words About What Came and Went Yesterday” 1979 Oct. 20
78 “Leroy's Invention Works” 1979 Oct. 22
79 “The Letter” n.d.
80 “Life Goes on in a Pornographic Theater in Tokyo” 1979 Oct. 23
81 “Like a Child” n.d.
82 “Limited Opportunities” n.d.
83 [“The Locust Theater...”] n.d.
84 “The Lost Tree” n.d.
85 “Make Sure You Know What You Are Doing” n.d.
86 “The Manderfield Tomb” n.d.
87 “The Man Who Took Out the Plumbing in His House and Replaced it With Poetry” n.d.
88 “The May 19th” n.d.
89 “The Menu” n.d.
90 “The [Messengers]” n.d.
91 “Missing Like Youth” 1979 Nov. 10
92 “Montana Chain Saw Silence” n.d.
93 “Montana Love” n.d.
94 “Moose: an American Pastoral” n.d.
95 “Mussels” n.d.
96 “My Fault” n.d.
97 “My Name Forgotten in the [Grass]” [n.y.] June 10
98 “The Names of the Characters in This Novel” n.d.
99 “The Necklace” 1979 Oct. 22
100 “The Neighbors” n.d.
101 “The Nightly Rounds” n.d.
102 “Not in the Right Place in the Land of Fools, the Blind Man is an Astronomer” 1979 Oct. 16
103 “The Obvious Charm of Lee Mellon” n.d.
104 “Old Bottles” n.d.
105 “One Afternoon, 1939” n.d.
106 “One Third, One Third, One Third” n.d.
107 “Ornaments I Request Not for My Bed Ever” 1979 Oct. 24
108 “The Owl and The Mouse” 1979 Oct. 16
109 “Pillow Talk” n.d.
110 “Pilots” 1979 Oct. 16
111 “The Planetarium” n.d.
112 “The Pond People” n.d.
113 “Pork Chops” n.d.
114 “The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon” n.d.
115 “President 22 of November” [n.y.] Nov. 22
116 “The Pretty Office” n.d.
117 “[Primer] for Party Groupies” n.d.
118 “[Proper] Place” n.d.
119 “The Prospects of a Good Business in San Francisco” n.d.
120 “The Purple Worm Jewelry of North Carolina” n.d.
121 “Railroading: a Sketch for Michael McClure” n.d.
122 “The Remarkable Dining Cars of the Northern Pacific Railroad” n.d.
123 “Revenge of the Lawn” n.d.
124 “The Royal Wedding” [n.y.] July 29
125 “Russel Chatham: a Portrait of an Artist in His Own Time” n.d.
126 “Rust” 1979 Nov. 8
127 “Sandwalker” n.d.
128 “Scenario for an Eight Millimeter Camera and $1.95 Worth of Film” n.d.
129 “Seven Things” 1979 Oct. 20
130 “The Short History of Religion in California” n.d.
131 “The Short Story” n.d.
132 “Slave of Uranium Passion” 1979 Oct. 23
133 “Some Humor in the San Francisco Style” n.d.
134 “Something Cooking on the Stove” n.d.
135 “The Standard Equipment of the Osaka Police Department” 1979 Nov. 8
136 “The Story of Freewheelin Frank and Henry David Thoreau as Friends and Contemporaries” n.d.
137 “The Stove is Clean” n.d.
138 “A Study in California Flowers” n.d.
139 “Subscription Cancelled” n.d.
140 “Sunday” n.d.
141 “Taking Care of Practical Matters First” n.d.
142 “Talking to Friends” n.d.
143 “The Tape Recorder” n.d.
144 “Tell Springtime” n.d.
145 “Storm Statues of California Old People” n.d.
146 “Three Hooks” n.d.
147 “Three Hundred and Twenty Eight Ceilings” 1981 June 20
148 “Three Stories” 1981
149 “The Tokyo Rabbit Store” 1979 Oct. 25
150 “Trapped in the Center of a Mirror” 1979 Oct. 24
151 “Twice” n.d.
152 “The Two Hundred and Eleven Twist” n.d.
153 “Umbrellas in the Snow” n.d.
154 “An Unfortunate Woman” [1982]
155 “An Unfortunate Woman” 1983 April 4
156 “A Very Special Happiness” 1979 Nov. 5
157 “A Very, Very, Very, Long Grocery List” 1981 July 28
158 “Walking Mushrooms” 1979 Nov. 10
159 “Watsonville” n.d.
160 “Way Back in 1947” n.d.
161 “We Gave to the Dwarfs” n.d.
162 “The Weather in San Francisco” n.d.
163 “Welcome to the Border” n.d.
164 “Werewolf Rasberries” n.d.
165 “What the Mad Scientist Left Behind” 1979 Oct. 26
166 “Wheels of Fortune” n.d.
167 “When Time is Not Important” 1979 Oct. 24
168 “The Why Questions” n.d.
169 “Why Sharon Doesn't Stay Up to Watch the Johnny Carson Show Anymore” n.d.
170 “Without” n.d.
171 “Woman in a Snake Skin Coat” [n.y.] Nov. 14
172 “The Working Man” 1979 Oct. 16
173 “ZZZZZZTrain” 1979 Oct. 25