Tag Archives: semi-fiction

SOUTHBOUND by Peter Nolan Smith

March 24, 2025 – 4:43 am

From 2013 Last week Vladmar announced that he was heading to Florida. The Pittsburgh native never been there before. 2013 had been a hard winter. “I can’t believe that I’m fifty years old and have never to the Holy Land.” The Sunshine State was special, but even more so back in the last century. “My […]

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Rain, Sleet, and Snow – North Fork Virginia 2012

March 20, 2025 – 7:12 am

Back in 2012 St. Padraic’s Day was blessed with spring weather. The next day Sunday was even warmer, as I traveled south to the Northern Neck of the Potomac to meet with Ms. Carolina. She was not faring well and wanted to see me one last time. Her husband Charles thought it was a good […]

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QUEEN OF THE PLAZA March 17 2009

March 17, 2025 – 7:46 am

St. Patrick’s Day promised to be another disaster for the Retail Collection of the Plaza Hotel. Hordes of green-clad spectators streamed down the escalator into the basement. Their eyes averted the luxury goods on offer, as their destination was the hotel’s public bathroom. Within the first hour I had given directions to the toilet over […]

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Nacht Und Nebel 2011

March 1, 2025 – 9:24 am

In the summer of 1982 Count-No-Count phoned my East Village apartment. Kurt was offering a job as ‘tursteher’ at his nightclub BSIR in Hamburg. The pay for a doorman was $150 a night, free accommodations, and all I could drink. Being dead-broke and wanted for questioning by the NYPD Internal Affairs for payment to the […]

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER – A STORY OF FAME AND UNFORTUNE – 2025

January 7, 2025 – 11:29 am

Rome wasn’t burnt in a day. – James Steele New York City teetered toward bankruptcy during America’s economic stagnation of the mid-70s and on Oct. 29, 1975 the Daily News splashed the headline FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD, after the president refused to bailout New York. The mayor slashed every department’s budget to the bone […]

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