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BIG FOOT by Peter Nolan Smith

In 1977 I moved out of my SRO room in Greenwich Village to the East Village with my hillbilly girlfriend. The third-floor walk-up on East 10th Street had a bathtub in the kitchen and a water closet off the living room. I carved Alice’s name on the wooden window sill. We lasted until 1979. The […]

Big Foot Extinction

My father passed his last days in a nursing home. Twice a month I traveled north on the Fung Wah bus. His assisted care facility was a twenty minute ride from the South Station. Few of the commuters walked in the direction of nursing home. Most of them got into cars. They stared at me. […]