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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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MAYBE TOMORROW – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 2

August 18, 2012 – 10:17 am

The clouded horizon buried the autumn sun and a moonless darkness soon smothered the Connecticut Hills with a wolfish gloom challenged only by the funnel of holiday traffic on the Interstate. Few travelers noticed the rundown motel hidden in the woods off exit 74. Its neon sign had been out of order since the summer. […]

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Microsoft Team 1978

June 26, 2012 – 1:14 am

There were still hippies in 1978. Find Bill Gates. Clue; He’s wearing glasses. The kicker on this photo is WOULD YOU HAVE INVESTED IN THIS COMPANY IN 1978 If you had, you are richer than Croesus.

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Where Have All The Flower Children Gone?

June 26, 2012 – 1:10 am

I was last in San Francisco in 1974. I stopped there en route to Bangkok. My cousin lived in a Nob Hill Mansion, which was light years away from the crash pad at which I had slept back then. Ty drove me around the Haight and Golden Gate park. I felt like Hippie Van Winkle. […]

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GODLESSNESS by Peter Nolan Smith

March 27, 2011 – 12:36 pm

East of Albuquerque the interstate switchbacked up the Santia Heights out of the Rio Grande Valley. The summer lost its heat, as the rusted pick-up climbed toward the pass and the cooler temperature revitalized AK and me. Late-August temperatures were murder on longhaired hitchhikers crossing the Far West. Rides were few and distances were far. […]

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