Category Archives: Fiction

Blows Against the Empire by Peter Nolan Smith

May 27, 2020 – 9:37 pm

Early in April 2001 a task force supporting the aircraft carrier US Kitty Hawk anchored off Pattaya. Its 12,000 soldiers and sailors invaded the go-go bars of Beach Road and I avoided the chaos without taking into account my Thai girlfriend’s displeasure at having to stay home night after night. “I not leave farm to […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith – CHAPTER 1

June 21, 2019 – 2:24 pm

Greta showed for an evening rendezvous in Hamburg’s harbor district. She was dressed in slick leather and arrived on time in anticipation of a sordid evening of sex with her lover. The tall blonde got out of her car. Willi was not on the desolate street. She heard footsteps and a black man and a […]

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BACK AND FORTH BY PETER NOLAN SMITH CHAPTER 1 – THE FIRST TEN MILES

July 29, 2018 – 2:55 pm

The Arborway trolley rattled on the Centre Street tracks toward Forest Hills. Two longhaired men and a young blonde woman in a peasant dress sat on the wooden seats of the near-empty streetcar. Each had a travel bag at their feet. Sean Coll unfolded a map of America and his New York friend pointed to […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith- CHAPTER 3

June 10, 2018 – 1:39 pm
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ALMOST A DEAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith – CHAPTER 2

June 10, 2018 – 1:07 pm

Howling sirens sent East Villagers fleeing into the Astor Place Subway. A lucky few reached the shelter of the tunnel and the rest raised their eyes to the speck falling to Earth. A white flash vaporized New York into the ionosphere.

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