Category Archives: Fiction

MAYBE TOMORROW – CHAPTER 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

May 6, 2013 – 6:12 pm

MAYBE TOMORROW – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 1 The November sun setting flashed a feeble ray off a West Village window and the wavering reflection stalked the Christopher Street pier to a lone youth tuning a battered guitar. The blonde twenty year-old appeared unaware of the approaching glow, then he broke into [...]

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NORTH NORTH HOLLYWOOD by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter One

April 14, 2013 – 9:12 pm

Six women crowded the honeymoon suite of the Coastal Motel. The buxom ‘groom’ patiently lay on the bed for her ‘bride’, while the brutish camerawoman glanced at the director and tapped her watch. “Lena, are you ready yet?” A bead of sweat trickled down the wiry director’s spine, as she knocked on the bathroom door. [...]

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NORTH NORTH HOLLYWOOD – Chapter 20 – by Peter Nolan Smith

March 23, 2013 – 6:03 pm

Two seconds after the woman hung up, Sean Tempo dialed 911. “Yes, may I help you?” the 911 operator answered within ten seconds. Sean explained the nature of the emergency and gave the operator the woman’s address. Several seconds passed in silence before the operator stated, “EMS no longer responds to that address.” “What do [...]

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THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH by Peter Nolan Smith

August 4, 2012 – 5:41 am

A black Suburban headed west on Route 2 at the top of Lake Michigan. The late afternoon traffic was nearly non-existent and no state troopers cruised the two-laner crossing the Upper Peninsula. The driver would have accelerated to 85, if he hadn’t spotted a white van in the Wonderland Diner parking lot, instead he stamped [...]

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MAYBE TOMORROW – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 6

August 3, 2012 – 6:33 am

Night life on Bleecker Street panned out after the Village Vanguard. Sean gazed out the taxi’s window at the forlorn sidewalk grilled yellow by cruel chrome streetlights. This was how New York really looked without the eyes of love. Three weeks ago Sean had abandoned a 1974 Cadillac DeVille by a gutted pier on the [...]

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