Monthly Archives: March 2025

TIPS FOR THE OCCUPIED

March 24, 2025 – 5:01 pm

In July 1940 according to Ronald Rosbottom’s WHEN PARIS WENT DARK about the Nazi Occupation of Paris in June 1940 a mimeographed flyer hit the streets. TIPS FOR THE OCCUPIED. The City of Light had been stunned by the collapse of the French army. 80% of the population fled Paris fearing the worst much like […]

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SOUTHBOUND by Peter Nolan Smith

March 24, 2025 – 4:43 am

From 2013 Last week Vladmar announced that he was heading to Florida. The Pittsburgh native never been there before. 2013 had been a hard winter. “I can’t believe that I’m fifty years old and have never to the Holy Land.” The Sunshine State was special, but even more so back in the last century. “My […]

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Snow in Spring NYC 2010

March 22, 2025 – 10:58 am

JoJo, the security guard at the diamond exchange, was a betting man. He gambled the left-overs from his monthly NYPD pension on baseball, basketball, and football. His losses outweighed his wins. JoJo also wagered on odd parlays and on March 1st in 2010 I said that there wouldn’t be another snowstorm. Two days ago the […]

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Opening paragraphs of ALMOST A DEAD MAN

March 20, 2025 – 12:17 pm

Hamburg 1982 The scurry of claws across the filthy floor startled the woman on the battered chair and she lifted her black stiletto heels in horror. Rats were the least of her problems. Over the phone her lover had suggested a nocturnal rendezvous on Kaiserkai. No one came to Hamburg’s harbor at night. The woman […]

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A Hotel Room Off The Highway 1985

March 20, 2025 – 10:44 am

A little after midnight I pull the Pontiac LeMans Off the interstate Before Flagstaff Onto Route 66___ Kyla sleeps against the door Not knowing we are stopping for the night At a motel The Flamingo Motel Hotel Red sign bright neon I pull up to the office Get us a room Kyla wake “Where are […]

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