Monthly Archives: December 2022

COLD SKIN IN PARIS

December 11, 2022 – 12:09 am

COLD SKIN IN PARIS The top-floor room’s only window was open to the winter January slashed my bare skin I rolled closer to Mirabelle The blonde mannequin had stolen all the duvet. My hand reached over the mattress I pulled the cover over us Her skin was cold as the gray dawn of Paris Below […]

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BRIGITTE NEVER GETS OLD by Peter Nolan Smith

December 10, 2022 – 9:58 am

Ten years ago I returned to New York after a long time in Thailand. Culture shock had been minimized by staying at my friend’s $2 million Ft. Greene brownstone, however after a week I had acclimatized to fat people with loud voices, young people walking with cellphones in their hands, and the lack of serious […]

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CASSE-TOI BRIGITTE by Peter Nolan Smith

December 10, 2022 – 12:01 am

New York City showed its teeth the winter of 1980. The police were racketeering our after-hours nightclub. One of the Continental’s backers was a gangster from Odessa, Russia. Vadim was going out with my old girlfriend from Buffalo. The tough zek smuggled stolen icons and passed bad paper. Lisa looked good in his furs. Only […]

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Lucky’s Night 1955

December 6, 2022 – 11:24 pm

Lost another job today And my empty pockets don’t help Can’t say the future’s mine But the past wasn’t mine too. So as always I’ll live on account Jamie was there the night I rolled 300 And all she managed to say, “It musta been fixed.” Leaving me all alone. So I took the prize […]

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Dunwich Horror – Wilbraham – Free Poetry – October 2022

December 6, 2022 – 2:37 pm

THE DUNWICH HORROR was published in 1929 by Weird Tales. Three years earlier HP Lovecraft had stayed in Wilbraham east of Springfield, Mass. The lost farmhouses scattered on the low mountains exuded a foreboding gloom inspired this tale, especially the 18th Century Whateley Farmhouse on Beebe Road. THE DUNWICH HORROR recounts the fictional life of […]

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