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PTSD Too

December 1, 2024 – 11:58 am

Several years ago I was at Grand Central Terminal with my sister’s younger in-laws. All military back from the Endless War. A twentyish Ranger said with young envy for a lost time that New York must have been crazy back in the 1970s. I replied yes and then flashed on the ghosts. Too many to […]

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THE PRESENCE OF THE GONE by Peter Nolan Smith

December 1, 2024 – 2:46 am

Boston is a four-hour bus ride from New York. My brothers and sisters lived in the southern suburbs of my old hometown. After my return from overseas in September 2011 from my European posting I called several times to arrange visits, but my father’s death in 2010 had disconnected our present paths from the routes […]

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A TRAIN STATION WITHOUT TRAINS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 10, 2023 – 6:29 pm

A TRAIN STATION WITHOUT TRAINS is a collection of four stories set in New York’s Grand Central Terminal. Millions of tourists come to view one of the largest open air interiors in the world and while I’ve traveled north from the station, I’ve also spent time eating and drinking at the fabled Oyster Bar and […]

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BAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

September 13, 2018 – 1:32 pm

In February of 2013 the president of a private jet charter service invited me to dinner at the Oyster Bar. I accepted without hesitation, because I was a born and bred New Englander and nowhere else in the city served a wider variety of oysters. “You don’t mind if I my girlfriend and her daughter […]

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60 Is The New 15

May 29, 2014 – 11:55 am

Two days ago I was at a Memorial Weekend lunch in Millbrook. The 1830s house belonged to a nice couple from good families. Their kids and those of the guests were playing in the pool. Our host and I drank vodka and lemonade. My good friend Camp congratulated me on my upcoming birthday. “How old […]

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