Category Archives: youth

MEETING ARTHUR by Peter Nolan Smith

April 17, 2023 – 2:36 am

In the summer of 1979 I was going out with a blonde model from Buffalo. One night Lisa came back to my apartment on East 10th Street late. Her hair looked tousled by a hurricane and a button was missing from her shirt. I checked the clock on the wall. It was after 3am. Lisa […]

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IRISH TWINS by Peter Nolan Smith

March 17, 2023 – 1:42 pm
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Lost Trains of Hamburg PA

January 10, 2023 – 1:14 pm

All these trained are stranded at the Hamburg PA Train Museum. This was their last stop. These trains are relics of America’s rail system. This TGV represents Europe of today. All thanks to the automobile. All hail the glory that was Detroit Train Station.

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Le Necrophile

December 11, 2022 – 12:16 am

Back in the late 1960s the biggest house in Quincy, Massachusetts was owned by a funeral director. His daughters were the most beautiful girls on the South Shore in 1967 and they introduced Cream to their admirers. I was one of them. So was an apprentice embalmer for their father. The other suitors joked that […]

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AMONG THE REDWOODS by Peter Nolan Smith

October 2, 2022 – 2:42 pm

The noon sun shimmered off Monterey harbor. The moored sailing boats bobbed with the light breeze and hundreds of pleasure craft wavered on the wake of a departing fishing boat. A middle-aged man took a photo of his wife before a large trawler tied up to a forlorn dock, while I walked toward Cannery Row. […]

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