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BET ON CRAZY – THE FOUR CS By Peter Nolan Smith [Kindle Edition]

May 22, 2014 – 11:26 am

In 1990 a friend in the New York’s Diamond District asked me to help him at his exchange. I knew nothing about diamonds other than Superman could squeeze coal to create them. Coal was a diamond after intense pressure changed its density. At first that was all I knew, but I slowly learned about the […]

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GERMANY AND OTHER PLACES on Kindle

May 17, 2014 – 8:33 am

As a high school student I was offered the language choices of Spanish, French, and German. No one spoke German in the 60s, except for Nazis in war movies, so I took the worst difficult course and earned Ds and Fs for my efforts. Despite my poor grades I ended up working in a Hamburg […]

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MAYBE TOMORROW a punk novel by Peter Nolan Smith on KINDLE

April 26, 2014 – 2:17 am

CHAPTER 1 The November sun flashed off a West Village window. The wavering reflection stalked the Christopher Street pier to a lone youth tuning a battered guitar. The twenty year-old in a battered leather jacket broke into a sly smile, as the sapphire shimmer transformed the blonde leather boy into a fallen angel regaining his […]

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IN THE ABSENCE OF AMNESIA by Peter Nolan Smith on KINDLE

April 21, 2014 – 11:21 am

New York in the summer of 1981 was everything it hadn’t been in the winter. The 90+ temperature boiled the asphalt. New Wave had replaced punk and somehow the city had escaped bankruptcy. Money flowed on the streets and even the East Village exhibited signs of regeneration, since abandoned tenements can only be burned so […]

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THE FLIGHT OF A FAT MAN on Kindle

March 30, 2014 – 9:27 am

Man has aspired to flight from time immemorial. In the winter of 1971 my New Yorker friend Eddie fantasized about soaring in a glider. He had one big problem. Eddie weighed 450 pounds. THE FLIGHT OF A FAT MAN recounts Eddie’s achieving his dream thanks to a teenage girl from the South Shore. Sookie had […]

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