Back Night Train
Chapters (37)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. The Truth of Thom Jones
  5. Selected Stories
  6. The Pugilist at Rest
  7. The Black Lights
  8. I Want to Live!
  9. Silhouettes
  10. Mosquitoes
  11. A White Horse
  12. Cold Snap
  13. Superman, My Son
  14. Way Down Deep in the Jungle
  15. Pickpocket
  16. Pot Shack
  17. I Need a Man to Love Me
  18. Sonny Liston Wasa Friend of Mine
  19. The Roadrunner
  20. A Run Through the Jungle
  21. 40, Still at Home
  22. Tarantula
  23. Mouses
  24. Daddy’s Girl
  25. New Stories
  26. Night Train
  27. Volcanoes from Hell
  28. A Merry Little Christmas
  29. All Along the Watchtower
  30. Diary of My Health
  31. The Junkman of Chengdu
  32. Bomb Shelter Noel
  33. Acknowledgments
  34. Credits
  35. About the Author
  36. Also by Thom Jones
  37. Thank you for buying this ebook, published by Hachette Digital.

Charles Bronson, the actor, is a good pal of mine. You know, it’s probably no secret but Charlie likes the ladies as I do. We like to go down to Mexico and party with Hollywood starlets, in the nude. Charles is eight inches hard and my wanger is ten. We have really great times in Mexico and we’ve been doing this since God knows when. Sometimes he will just pop by to talk about philosophy or to pick my brain about world events and the meaning of life. A great chess player is Charles. Not my caliber but damn close! Judith calls this all a “Walter Mitty fantasy.” I won’t lie, we went through some tough times after that romantic first date and she quit believing in me.

Sometimes Judith can be harder than nails and she will just ride my ass. She let herself go after we got married and put on some major poundage. It is my bane! Seven wives and all of them fatsoes! The fat gave her energy—turned into a carping fishwife, a highly dominant woman of the sort who can only respond to men that are stronger than her. Men who are confident at every level of thought and action. Hugh Hefner and I have had many discussions on this very subject. Hef has made a life study of the opposite sex. Ordinarily I can chill Judith out with a love poem and five or six dozen roses, but when we went to the Marzuki family reunion in Skokie last week, my stupid brother, Calvin, threw food in my mother’s face. Jesus, what a dick! Well, he was completely out of control on Pabst Blue Ribbon. I had to do something so I hopped on the bastard, threw him out the window, and then ten cop cars show up. It took eighteen officers to pull me off of Calvin. Eighteen, and that is no lie. During the bloody scuffle, the officer in charge said, “Louis, please listen to reason; you’re going to kill him and go to jail. It’s not worth it for a man of your caliber to throw it all away over a senseless weekend beef.” He was right.