Category Archives: Fiction

NORTH NORTH HOLLYWOOD – Chapter 20 – by Peter Nolan Smith

April 1, 2015 – 11:03 am

Two seconds after the woman hung up, Sean Tempo dialed 911. “Yes, may I help you?” the 911 operator answered within ten seconds. Sean explained the nature of the emergency and gave the operator the woman’s address. Several seconds passed in silence before the operator stated, “EMS no longer responds to that address.” “What do […]

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MAYBE TOMORROW on Kindle

March 2, 2014 – 5:36 pm

Several years ago I went to a Nan Goldin show at the Whitney Museum with a Park Avenue divorcee. Claudia came from a good Philadelphia famiily and the black and white photos were a shock to her upper-class sensibilities. “These people look so tragic.” Her assessment of Nan Goldin’s subjects was true, but I knew […]

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NORTH NORTH HOLLYWOOD – Chapter 1 – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith

April 16, 2012 – 6:59 pm

Six women crowded the honeymoon suite of the Coastal Motel. The buxom ‘groom’ waited patiently on the bed, while the brutish camerawoman glanced at the director and tapped her watch. “Lena, are you ready yet?” A bead of sweat trickled down the wiry director’s spine, as she knocked on the bathroom door. “One more minute,” […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN – CHAPTER 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

May 2, 2010 – 10:52 am

ONE A scurry of claws scratched across the damp basement floor. The woman on the battered chair lifted her black stiletto heels in horror, but rats were the least of her problems. This afternoon her lover had suggested a rendezvous in Hamburg’s harbor district. She arrived in anticipation of a sordid indiscretion. Two men were […]

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Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Reading 2/18

January 31, 2010 – 2:51 pm

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 7pm at Freddy’s Backroom Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Reading Series is moving to Brooklyn and as a tribute to our move to the Dodgers home borough, our first event will feature all stories from New Yorkers and their love for the game- any game- all games! We will hear from soft-ballers, basket-ballers, marathon-ballers- […]

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