Tag: Mistress

One of my heroes, literary and musical ones anyway, was the trailblazin’ ‘Texas Jewboy’ Kinky Friedman. One of his two great heroes was Hank Williams. The other was Anne Frank. All things considered, I would have preferred to be movin’ on over in that matrimonial doghouse ...

For fifteen years I served cocaine, my mistress with voodoo in her eyes. She sang with the voice of a ghost, conjured the spirit of my departed sister, chanting incantations of numb acceptance. Demanding all of me, she stole the moonlight from my wife’s eyes. My children ceased to fe...