Category Archives: MAYBE TOMORROW

MAYBE TOMORROW – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 1

February 9, 2011 – 11:36 am

The November sun flattened atop the Jersey Palisades and the fiery frisbee flashed a dying ray off a West Village window. Its 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 a smile shy of [...]

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MAYBE TOMORROW Chapter 4 by Peter Nolan Smith

September 18, 2008 – 7:40 am

IVThe stripped-down wrecks along the Interstate marked New York City’s northern border. Flames leapt from an abandoned tenement in Hunt’s Point. Smoke smouldered from their neglected neighbors. Not a single police car or fire truck was in sight and the hippie driving the Olds 88 looked at the girl sprawled across the passenger seat, then [...]

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MAYBE TOMORROW – CHAPTER 3 / A Novel by Peter Nolan Smith

September 15, 2008 – 11:05 am

III With thirty-one more shopping days until Christmas, not a single wreath hung in the porno shops, strip clubs, or X-rated theaters above 42nd Street. Accordingly Santa Claus was steering clear of 8th Avenue, for every night people were robbed, cheated, murdered or worse on the ‘Deuce’. Social scientists claimed red-light districts contained crime and [...]

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MAYBE TOMORROW – CHAPTER 2 / A Novel by Peter Nolan Smith

September 10, 2008 – 10:35 am

II Once the autumn sun dropped below a clouded horizon, the moonless night smothered the Connecticut Hills with a wolfish gloom challenged only by the funnel of holiday traffic on Interstate. Few travelers would have noticed the motel snuggled into the woods off exit 74. Its neon sign had been out of order since the [...]

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MAYBE TOMORROW – CHAPTER 1 / A Novel by Peter Nolan Smith

September 9, 2008 – 10:43 am

The November sun atop the Jersey Palisades flashed a dying ray off a West Village window. Its wavering reflection stalked the Christopher Street pier to a lone youth tuning a battered guitar. The blonde appeared unaware of the approaching glow, then broke into a smile shy of surprise, as the sapphire shimmer transformed the twenty [...]

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