Short Fiction Runyon, Damon: A Damon Runyon Omnibus, v1, 8 March 2010.

[Patricia]

Damon Runyon [1880-1946]
A Damon Runyon Omnibus

This collection of 41 short stories was compiled by forum member, Ralph Sir Edward, who has added a short Introduction and a Glossary, which he has generously put into the public domain. RSE has also done most of the proofreading. I’ve done the layout, formatting, and a cursory proofing; also a cover.

From Wikipedia:
[Runyon] was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted. He spun humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit," "Big Jule," "Harry the Horse," "Good Time Charley," "Dave the Dude," or "The Seldom Seen Kid." Runyon wrote these stories in a distinctive vernacular style: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in present tense, and always devoid of contractions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Runyon

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[Greg Anos]

A great big bow to Patricia for all here effort!

[Patricia]

Actually, most of the effort was RSE's!

[Sparrow]

Thank you both!

[GA Russell]

Thanks to both of you! I read You Know Me, Al years ago, and I'll look forward to this.

[bwaldron]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

I read You Know Me, Al years ago

That's Ring Lardner, not Runyon, isn't it?

[GA Russell]

bwaldron, you're right! And all this time I have been thinking that it was Damon Runyon! I guess I'll have to download this omnibus to see what Runyon was like.

[lesleyd]

Thanks so much for this....fabulous stories...just gems!

[zelda_pinwheel]

thank you to both of you !

[smendlovitz]

"anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men (both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain"
— E.E. Cummings (Selected Poems)