Category Archives: MAYBE TOMORROW

MAYBE TOMORROW – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 2

August 18, 2012 – 10:17 am

The clouded horizon buried the autumn sun and a moonless darkness soon smothered the Connecticut Hills with a wolfish gloom challenged only by the funnel of holiday traffic on the Interstate. Few travelers noticed the rundown motel hidden in the woods off exit 74. Its neon sign had been out of order since the summer. [...]

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MAYBE TOMORROW – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 6

August 11, 2012 – 10:44 am

Sean woke to a throbbing headache, swollen knuckles, and a delirious argument about Robert Kennedy’s having contracted his brother’s death to avenge Marilyn Monroe’s murder by the FBI. Opening his eyes, he discovered that he was naked in Cheri’s old room. The afternoon sun was slipping below New Jersey’s low skyline across the river painting [...]

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MAYBE TOMORROW – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 5

July 26, 2012 – 11:49 pm

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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MAYBE TOMORROW A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 4

July 26, 2012 – 8:40 am

Two hours past midnight the Olds 88 crossed a bridge spanning a black tidal river. Co-Op City’s stark highrises loomed on the left and abandoned wrecks lined the Interstate to remind motorists that crime didn’t sleep in the Big Apple. Thee minutes later Sean lifted his foot off the gas and veered onto the Bruckner [...]

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MAYBE TOMORROW Chapter 3 by Peter Nolan Smith

July 20, 2012 – 11:04 am

Thirty-one shopping days remained until Christmas and not a single wreath hung in any of the porno shops, strip clubs, or X-rated theaters above 42nd Street. Times Square ran short on holiday spirit and if there was a Santa Claus, he was steering clear of 8th Avenue, on which every night hapless victims were robbed, [...]

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