Category Archives: semi-fiction

FURY FORGOTTEN by Peter Nolan Smith

July 28, 2022 – 12:51 pm

FURY FORGOTTEN by Peter Nolan Smith New York City has been bled of out-of-towners with a merciless fury. Jobs once abundant for aging emigres to Manhattan dries up, as your age passes 40. Successful friends move out of your pay bracket and your old work slow has been replaced by twenty year-olds willing to work […]

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THE HOLE OF HEAVEN by Peter Nolan Smith

July 27, 2022 – 6:16 am

According to the Old Testament God banished Adam and Eve from Eden for eating the forbidden apple and this Original Sin exiled their descendants to this mortal coil, however humans have repeatedly defied this divine decree with attempts to recreate Heaven on Earth and in 1965 the teenagers of Boston’s South Shore made out at […]

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Emerson Lake and Palmer 1971 Loss of Viriginity Tour

July 27, 2022 – 2:01 am

Seven years ago Moog Music announced that the company was honoring the 50th anniversary of the Moog Modular at Moogfest and that legendary company’s engineers had spent three years reconstructing Keith Emerson’s iconic Moog Modular System. “Using the original documentation as well as circuit board and art files for nearly every original Moog module, Moog […]

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THE STAFF OF SCHMOSES by Peter Nolan Smith

July 17, 2022 – 8:04 am

In July of 1995 my cousin flew from LA to dance at ShowWorld in Times Square. The boyish brunette’s loyal following packed the legendary porno parlor to worship Sherri’s stage acrobatics. Thankfully pleasing her audience required little more than stripping off her clothes. The XXX actress augmented her take by selling underwear and signing posters. […]

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Women First

July 12, 2022 – 2:30 pm

For the most of the weekend my telephone runs on the silent mode. I’m a forgotten man in New York. Many of my friends think that I am living in Luxembourg or even Thailand, so I was surprised this afternoon by my cellphone vibrating on my desk. Caller ID identified the area code as originating […]

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