Monthly Archives: May 2010

The Dead Tell the Truth

May 2, 2010 – 8:38 pm

I’ve never fired a gun in anger. My violence takes form in fists and bats. Living in Thailand was a lesson in patience. For all their smiles the Thais are seething with a murderous streak awaiting the right opportunity to cut close and this last week during a confrontation with red-shirt protesters, an exchange of […]

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Bombs Away Times Square

May 2, 2010 – 6:36 pm

New York City is swarming with tourists, foreign and native-born as well as illegal aliens. The visitors filled restaurants and hotels. They flock to the city’s many attractions such as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. Last night the Crossroads of the World was cordoned off by police after a street vendor […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN – CHAPTER 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

May 2, 2010 – 10:52 am

ONE A scurry of claws scratched across the damp basement floor. The woman on the battered chair lifted her black stiletto heels in horror, but rats were the least of her problems. This afternoon her lover had suggested a rendezvous in Hamburg’s harbor district. She arrived in anticipation of a sordid indiscretion. Two men were […]

By Peter | Posted in Crime, Fiction, Sex | Comments (0)

Tiger in the Woods

May 1, 2010 – 1:50 pm

When things go bad they go bad all around. Tiger Woods had a terrible off-season with the press. First his wife attacked him with a golf club after he crashed into a tree fleeing their Florida mansion, then 14 women outed the golfer’s sexual misadventures to the tabloids. His infidelity shocked a nation with a […]

By Peter | Posted in media, Sports | Comments (0)

Ugly Sheep

May 1, 2010 – 12:34 am

Last night was moules frites night at Lola’s on Myrtle Avenue. Its owner Charlotta was a friend. We were telling jokes. None of them were clean and I loved her telling of this one. There was this cowboy named Jake who got himself fired from his job at the ranch. He was out of work […]

By Peter | Posted in animals, Humor | Comments (0)