Category Archives: semi-fiction

Le Royal Lieu

January 4, 2023 – 1:52 am

The bomb blast at the Bank Leumi had transformed Rue Des Italians to an old daguerreotype of Paris from the 1870s. A tent had been erected under a balcony of the carless street. A young clochard cut vegetables into a pot. The thin bum was better clothed than most derelicts sleeping under the Seine bridges, […]

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The last words of an atheists genesis

January 2, 2023 – 7:59 pm
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STARTING ANEW by Peter Nolan Smith

December 31, 2022 – 7:24 pm

Someone once told me that how you spend the first day of the year depends how you will spend the rest of the year. January 1, 2009 I awoke with a hang-over and thought about heading over to the 10th Street Bath to sweat out the poisons of December 31, 2008. Recovery seemed the perfect […]

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NEW YEAR’S EVE ALL RIGHT by Peter Nolan Smith

December 31, 2022 – 1:10 pm

In the Spring of 1969 my teenage sweetheart’s mother was dating a Chilean pianist. One Friday evening the two adults left the brunette cheerleader in charge of the house and after she put her younger brother to bed, I came over for a study session. An hour at the books was our passport to a […]

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SHORTEST FIGHT IN THE WORLD by Peter Nolan Smith

December 27, 2022 – 1:33 pm

The World on East 2nd Street hosted a screening of the Tyson-Spinks fight on June 27, 1988. The nightclubs’s door was handled by the tough guy mooks hired by the Bensonhurst fat boys hosting the event. The fee for televising the fight was $20,000. The Brooklyn boys wanted $25 a head. The NYFD occupancy limit […]

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