Tag Archives: new york

The Last Christmas Tree

December 28, 2021 – 1:40 pm

After Thanksgiving Christmas trees crowd the sidewalks of New York. On the corner of Fulton and St. Felix Streets the holiday franchise has been run by Laurent and Amy, who have transported evergreens from the northern forest of Quebec for the last six seasons. We spoke in French with their accent a provincial Quebecois and […]

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GLITTER GULCH by Jane Dickson

November 14, 2021 – 1:46 am

The Last Days of Babylon July 12, 2013 Throughout 70s and 80s NYPD Police and city authorities had designated Times Square to be DMZ for crime and sex and the neighborhood swiftly became a haven for XXX theaters, go-go girls, pimps, whore houses, rent boys, hustlers, thieves, dealers, and lowlifes on the make. The 1977 […]

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IN ABSENCE OF AMNESIA – Chapter 7 By Peter Nolan Smith

August 7, 2021 – 5:17 pm

After the New Year I returned to Manhattan committed to seek solace as a bachelor. Life was comfortable. My job at a Arthur’s nightclub paid my rent and more. Friends were fun. No highs or lows. The sameness of the days could last forever in most of America, but not New York. In late April […]

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THE AMNESIA OF ME by Peter Nolan Smith

July 23, 2021 – 11:32 am

Eight years ago I was sitting on Pattaya’s notorious Soi 6 listening to SOMEBODY TO LOVE. As I grooved to the Jefferson Airplane’s hit, a trio of sub-20 Thai girls had invited me to visit an upstairs short-time room. “You sexy man. How old you? 40?” asked the youngest. Even through beer goggles my mirror […]

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THE SURRENDER OF DESIRE by Peter Nolan Smith

July 10, 2021 – 10:56 am

Before 9/11 I was madly in enamoured with a blonde model from the UK. Judith was smart, funny, and liked her drink. We seemed doomed to be friends, then one wintry evening we drank ourselves past the portals of inhibition. Judith invited me back to her apartment. We made out on her sofa. This wasn’t […]

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