Monthly Archives: June 2018

Drinking Yourself To Death

June 12, 2018 – 1:07 pm

Every week the Pattaya Media highlights another farang leaving this mortal coil from suicide. Favorite methods of self-demise tend to be jumping from a condo, poison, or hanging yourself with a plastic bag around your head, but few people ever comment on the most popular technique ie drinking yourself to the grave, since the process […]

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Out Of It

June 12, 2018 – 8:34 am
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Stranger Stranger

June 12, 2018 – 2:25 am

Family. Sigh. Maybe I remember the better moments of life. I don’t think so. Then again I am far from a perfect person. As anyone can judge from this missive from my cousin. “I think of you all every day, unfavorably and with sorrow. It is, I suppose, kind of you to contact me but, […]

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SCHNORER / BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith

June 11, 2018 – 2:34 pm

On a late October afternoon in 1994 I hurried from the subway to the diamond exchange on 47th Street. A cold drizzle wet the sidewalk. My leather jacket fought off the damp and my boots prevented the wet from touching my feet. It was 9:25 and a slovenly beggar wearing a soggy yamakah stepped into […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith- CHAPTER 3

June 10, 2018 – 1:39 pm
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