Category Archives: friends

If Bruce Came to My House

June 13, 2021 – 7:17 am

In April 2008 I lived nowhere. My apartment in the East Village had been taken over by the faceless management company. I lived with my wife and daughter in Pattaya until this April. We had good times and bad times. It was home, then again I considered anyplace home once you buy a roll of […]

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AX IN HAND by Peter Nolan Smith

June 10, 2020 – 4:55 pm

My mother had spent her honeymoon on Bermuda. Every winter my parents had vacationed in the Caribbean and each July my father rented a Harwichport cottage for a week. My mother loved the ocean. On summer weekends they loaded his six children into the Ford Station wagon for a drive to the beach. Massachusetts had […]

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North Fork Virginia March 19, 2011

March 19, 2020 – 5:57 pm

In March 2011 I drove down to the North Fork of Virginia to visit my ailing friend, Barbara Mosely. Her husband, she, and I walked in the late-winter sun and I mentioned I might take a dip in the river. I did so and felt the cold of a passenger who had abandoned the Titanic […]

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A Good Night’s Sleep

March 12, 2020 – 3:28 am

In 2008 the ex-model from Paris has been abducted by fundamentalist thought. For her the world was coming to an end. We are living in the End of Days under the Anti-Christ. His name is Barack Obama. Several times a day the great beauty posted warnings of biblical doom One epistle was the following; several […]

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KLAUS NOMI LIGHTNING

March 10, 2020 – 1:36 am

A blizzard struck Manhattan on February 4, 1978. The snowstorm closed the city within the first hours. The streets became impassable for cars soon afterwards, as 100 mph winds buried the sidewalks under 5-foot drifts. My hillbilly girlfriend and I were trapped in our East Village apartment for days. The gas stove’s four burners prevented […]

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