Category Archives: semi-fiction

Toujours Siam

February 16, 2025 – 2:45 am

From 2011 Thirty-five years ago I sold a 5-FSI1 Round Brilliant Diamond to a woman from Florida. She was purchasing the ring for her mother. When asked to ship the present to Miami Beach via Fedex, my boss refused to accommodate the woman’s request, fearing the diamond might get lost in transit. The customer was […]

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55 REMSEN by Peter Nolan Smith

February 15, 2025 – 4:37 pm

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” ― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister In the fall of 1975 I worked as a substitute teacher at South Boston High School. The city’s school system was torn by busing riots. Poor white kids attended school in poor black neighborhoods and vice […]

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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre / BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith

February 14, 2025 – 4:18 am

Every Valentine’s Day diamond dealers and jewelers on 47th Street anticipated a winter spending spree by lovers for their loved ones, but each year of the 21st Century the sales numbers dropped drastically, as the economic downturn cut into everyone’s surplus, but the rich. Valentine afternoon in February 2011 shoppers crammed the chocolatiers along 5th […]

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Zroom Ferrari Zroom – 2011

February 14, 2025 – 12:18 am

My mother deteriorated rapidly in her bed at MGH. She was in the final stages of her battle with cancer. It was not a pretty fight, but her beauty remained intact to the end. On Christmas Eve my mother held my hand and said, “I’m so happy I made Christmas.” “Me too.” I thought about […]

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BET ON CRAZY / Betting Super Bowl XXIV

February 1, 2025 – 2:28 am

For years Richie Boy and I bet the Super Bowl according to the Manny Principle, which was that Manny had never beaten the spread for the NFL’s final game. Accordingly we always bet the other way. In 1996 the championship game matched the Dallas Cowboys against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Tempe, Arizona. All week Googs, […]

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