Category Archives: Drugs

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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Sacklers Up Against The Wall

August 20, 2021 – 10:04 am

After the Chinese Red Army’s triumph over Chiang Kai-Chek’s Kuomintang in 1949. Chairman Mao instituted a ruthless campaign against drug dealers and opium addicts to combat the plague of addiction through China. Opium disappeared from most of the country other than the Southern provinces bordering Burma. This no-nonsense approach was adopted by most of the […]

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CRACK ISLAND by Peter Nolan Smith

August 8, 2021 – 1:45 am

Crack cocaine swept across the Lower East Side in the summer of 1986. East 11th Street between Avenue B and C on the Lower East Side of New York was the destination of choice for its adherents and hundreds of crack zombies lined the sidewalk before the tenement building on the corner of Avenue B […]

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The Bud of Ten Years After

May 21, 2021 – 7:39 am

The nuns at Our Lady of the Foothills comforted their young pupils’ loss of a favorite toy by telling the tearful student that in heaven there was a closet containing all lost possession. I found solace in this possibility even after I lost my faith in heaven and hell, however one day I realized that […]

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Iowa Snow

December 16, 2020 – 12:28 pm

Many people living on the East and West Coasts of America refer to the land in between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as the fly-over. The State of Iowa is in the center of the United States. The nearest big city is Chicago. Most of its residents are devoted to growing corn. The Federal government […]

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