Category Archives: Sex

Happy Ending for VIPs

America is the land of no. No sex. No drinking. No drugs. Hypocrisy to the nth degree. The Catholic Church assaults young boys. Thousands of young girls runaway from abusive family. More kids die on Oycontin than heroin. Sexual freedom is a myth and these last weeks the right wing has latched onto several stories [...]

Jezebel / Joke

A black man takes the 410 bus every morning. Elroy gets a seat by the driver. he doesn’t say nothing to no one. A nod and not much else. He’s not a morning person. One day a man wearing a beret gets on the bus. He nods to Elroy. He smells his middle finger and [...]

THE BOUQUET OF RUINS by Peter Nolan Smith

Dec 1982 Bsirs was in decline. Hamburg’s long white nights of the summer solstice had given way to the fiercely short days of winter. Rain, darkness, cold. High school students stayed home weeknights. The northern city’s intelligentsia avoided the sleek nightclub on Eppendorfer Weg. Painters gave way to pimps and models were replaced by off-duty [...]

THE SUMMER OF LUST By Peter Nolan Smith

May 1974 My friend Andy Kornfeld, a blonde co-ed from BU, and I were cross-countrying in a drive-away station wagon. Boston-Sterling, Colorado-Thompson Canyon-the Id Lounge in Roosevelt Utah before hitting the Stateline of Nevada around noon. Several small casinos lined the two-lane highway. It was my birthday. Age 22. “I’m feeling lucky.” I veered off [...]

GIRLS LIKE GIRLS by Peter Nolan Smith

Things in Bangkok had gotten out of control. The red shirts controlled the city. The police did nothing. People called them daeng moh or watermelon. They were red on the inside. Thaksin was a fellow cop. The Army was in the hands of the old elite or phuu laak maak dee. Bloodshed was a daily [...]