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WHEN FAT MEN FLY Chapter 5 by Peter Nolan Smith

February 28, 2018 – 8:50 pm

After work on Friday I hitchhiked to the Cape Cod. The first ride was to the Sagamore Bridge and the next one got me to Chatham. It was dark by the time arrived in Truro. Linda was happy to see me. Her daughter was shy at first, but after dinner I won her heart by […]

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WHEN FAT MEN FLY by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 4

February 28, 2018 – 2:52 pm

The first week in February I moved into an apartment in Brighton’s Bug Village. The walls were thin as a potato chip and a single electric space heater warmed the living room. I colonized it with a color TV. Wayne came over to crash with Marie after concerts. Neither of them had a car. She […]

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WHEN FAT MEN FLY by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 1

February 28, 2018 – 11:17 am
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THE INHALE OF WEED by Peter Nolan Smith

February 10, 2018 – 9:43 am

Marijuana was demonized throughout my youth. The Boston police treated reefer smokers as harshly as junkies. John Sinclair, the MC5’s radical spokesperson, was sentenced to ten years of prison for the crime of ‘giving’ an undercover agent two joints. The severity of his punishment did not deter the millions of marijuana smokers of the 60s […]

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