Monthly Archives: December 2022

STARTING ANEW by Peter Nolan Smith

December 31, 2022 – 7:24 pm

Someone once told me that how you spend the first day of the year depends how you will spend the rest of the year. January 1, 2009 I awoke with a hang-over and thought about heading over to the 10th Street Bath to sweat out the poisons of December 31, 2008. Recovery seemed the perfect […]

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NEW YEAR’S EVE ALL RIGHT by Peter Nolan Smith

December 31, 2022 – 1:10 pm

In the Spring of 1969 my teenage sweetheart’s mother was dating a Chilean pianist. One Friday evening the two adults left the brunette cheerleader in charge of the house and after she put her younger brother to bed, I came over for a study session. An hour at the books was our passport to a […]

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Atheist’s Genesis – Creation

December 29, 2022 – 10:59 pm

What hast you wroth?

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SHORTEST FIGHT IN THE WORLD by Peter Nolan Smith

December 27, 2022 – 1:33 pm

The World on East 2nd Street hosted a screening of the Tyson-Spinks fight on June 27, 1988. The nightclubs’s door was handled by the tough guy mooks hired by the Bensonhurst fat boys hosting the event. The fee for televising the fight was $20,000. The Brooklyn boys wanted $25 a head. The NYFD occupancy limit […]

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BOXING DAY ON THE BOWERY by Peter Nolan Smith

December 26, 2022 – 2:54 am

Every Christmas my mother cooked a 20-pound turkey, I mashed seasoned potatoes, and my sisters set the dining room table with yams, creamed onions, turnips, peas, stuffing, and all the fixings for my aunts, uncles, cousins, grandmothers, friends, cousins, sisters, and brothers. Grace was said with bowed heads. Our plates were swept by forks and […]

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