Category Archives: Drinking

AN XMAS EVE TALE by Peter Nolan Smith

December 22, 2021 – 12:21 am

Nine years ago the holiday sales plummeted to near-zero in New York’s Diamond District 47th Street. The Greater Depression had robbed the middle-class of their imagined wealth and jewelry purchases had been sacrificed to pay mortgages and credit card bills. America as a nation continued to suffer from the banking debacle, the collapse of the […]

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Doppelganger 2021

August 21, 2021 – 3:17 pm

Throughout the last two years Sharif and I had worked together on various projects for Ole Yellah. The German restauranteur has her ways. She expect things to be done perfectly even if no one has done them before. Even she. Sharif and I do our best. Our best is not perfection. Ole Yellah likes to […]

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AUGUST 20, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

August 20, 2021 – 12:16 pm

Alice is down in Chinatown, plotting the dramatic take-over of the East Village with Tom Scully and his scrawny girlfriend. I don’t like the way Susan looks at Alice and she doesn’t like the way Alice loves me. To her I’m a thug. The coke deal is back on and I’m waiting on Guadalcanal’s call […]

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A Walk To Bliss

July 26, 2021 – 8:49 pm

At dusk after a hard day’s work I walked to the closest packie in Hudson. There wasn’t a car in the parking lot. The bells of a nearby church rang five times. Five O’Clock. They can’t have close at 5 But it was a Monday Then I spotted a lit OPEN sign. I purchased a […]

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Half Full. Half Empty

April 15, 2021 – 1:26 pm

Who cares if the glass is half full or half empty if a full glass is waiting in the future?

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