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THE SMELL OF MOONSHINE by Peter Nolan Smith

February 11, 2022 – 9:06 am

Back in the late 50s my Irish grandmother took my older brother and me for a monthly visit to downtown Boston. We left her house in Jamaica Plains and rode the trolley into Boylston Street. The El from Forest Hills to Washington Street was quicker, but Nana preferred the trolley. My late grandfather had driven […]

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AUGUST 21, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

August 21, 2021 – 7:37 pm

Society in America has hit the skids. The corruption of the Two-Party System has reduces the working classes to the edge of poverty with 55% of earnings taxed by the IRS, while the rich pay nothing. Socialist Sweden, camel-roping Kuwait, and the frozen snowbacks of Canada have higher per capita incomes. Most Americans blame President […]

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THE LIGHT OF THE MOON by Peter Nolan Smith

October 22, 2018 – 8:29 am

Sundays belonged to the Lord in Tulsa. Numerous church bells rang from nearby steeples. Sean pulled the pillow over his head. A knock sounded on the door. “Don’t say anything,” whispered AK. He liked sleeping late, but free rooms had their price. The next knock was more forceful. “You boys awake?” The voice belonged to […]

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Killer Shine

November 14, 2017 – 10:13 am

A flatlander was driving down a road back in the hills when a hillbilly stepped out into the road and leveled his rifle at him. The flatlander stopped and the hillbilly motioned him out of the car. Then he handed the rube a jug and said, “Drink it.” The man tried to refuse but the […]

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THE CALL OF WILD by Peter Nolan Smith

September 27, 2016 – 1:31 pm

My life was once ruled by the night. I haunted concerts, bars, clubs, and parties from dusk to dawn from the 60s into the 90s. My retirement occurred around the turn of the century and the birth of my children completed the process, for I feared the Chris Rock’s curse of being the oldest man […]

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