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THE FLIGHT OF A FAT MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

June 27, 2014 – 8:12 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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HANDS OF BRICK by Peter Nolan Smith

April 4, 2013 – 11:44 am

Hockey and baseball have long been New England’s two favorite sports, since they offered outdoor entertainment to young boys in the seaons of good sledding and bad sledding. Our gods played in Fenway Park and the Boston Garden, but one night a radio announcer’s raspy voice introduced the world of basketball and Johnny Most sunk […]

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Asshole

April 3, 2013 – 9:00 am

My old corner on East 10th street was always hot. Reefer, cocaine, and heroin were the action, but the dealers and I had an understanding. No one dealt off my stoep and I didn’t call the police. If someone dealt off my stoep, I still didn’t call the police. I fucked with them myself. The […]

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HOCKEY CHICK

February 10, 2013 – 3:56 pm

Back in the 90s I had an affair with a punk rock singer. Claudia wasn’t the prettiest girl in the East Village, in fact some of my friends considered her ugly, because of her long twisting nose, however Slatta liked me and no woman in New York had liked me for a long time, so […]

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Madonna At 18

January 25, 2013 – 8:59 pm

Three years later Madonna came to sublet my apartment on East 10th Streeet. The walls were as smooth as lumpy pancakes. The bathtub was in the kitchen and the WC had an overhead chain. “I’ll think about it.” I never heard from her, but she was in my apartment for ten minutes. I bet she […]

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