Category Archives: semi-fiction

IRISH TWINS by Peter Nolan Smith

May 8, 2012 – 10:42 am
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I’M GOOD IF YOU’RE GOOD by Peter Nolan Smith

May 2, 2012 – 5:13 pm

Opening a jewelry store in the Plaza Hotel seemed like a good idea in the Spring of 2008. I was dead broke after my arrest in Thailand for copyright infringement and my wife Mam was pregnant with our son. The Plaza was one of New York’s premier destinations. Wealth was in my cards. Richie Boy [...]

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VOW OF SILENCE by Peter Nolan Smith

May 2, 2012 – 4:03 pm

Almost everyone in the world has a phone. Cellular service can connect my phone with Antarctica or Greenland. I can call Fenway’s mom in Thailand and Mam will pick up on the other end. Millions of cellular calls and SMS messages crisscross the globe searching billions of destinations. We are so close, yet so far [...]

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HOT AS BLAZES by Peter Nolan Smith

April 30, 2012 – 9:46 pm

Last year I flew from JFK to Haneda in Japan. The segment of my trip lasted 14 hours. The lay-over in Japan was two hours and the final hop to Bangkok took 6 hours followed by a 90-minute taxi ride to Sriracha. Sitting for twenty-six hours straight had flattened my ass, so my coccyx felt [...]

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Thailand’s Happiness Index Deficit

April 30, 2012 – 9:46 am

In 1972 Bhutan’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuck attempted to reform his country’s feudal economy on a Buddhist spiritual level rather than a capitalistic model. To best judge his efforts the king created a Gross Domestic Happiness Index based on life satisfaction, life expectancy at birth, and ecological footprint per capita. The Wall Street Journal ignores [...]

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