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BACK AND FORTH BY PETER NOLAN SMITH CHAPTER 1 – THE FIRST TEN MILES

July 29, 2018 – 2:55 pm

The Arborway trolley rattled on the Centre Street tracks toward Forest Hills. Two longhaired men and a young blonde woman in a peasant dress sat on the wooden seats of the near-empty streetcar. Each had a travel bag at their feet. Sean Coll unfolded a map of America and his New York friend pointed to […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith- CHAPTER 3

June 10, 2018 – 1:39 pm
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ALMOST A DEAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith – CHAPTER 2

June 10, 2018 – 1:07 pm

Howling sirens sent East Villagers fleeing into the Astor Place Subway. A lucky few reached the shelter of the tunnel and the rest raised their eyes to the speck falling to Earth. A white flash vaporized New York into the ionosphere.

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith – CHAPTER 1

June 10, 2018 – 12:02 pm

A scurry of claws scratched across the damp basement floor and the woman on the battered chair lifted her black stiletto heels in horror, but rats were the least of her problems. This afternoon her lover had phone to suggest a rendezvous in Hamburg’s harbor district. She had arrived after dark in anticipation of an […]

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BACK AND FORTH by Peter Nolan Smith – CHAPTER 5 – THE ID LOUNGE

December 21, 2017 – 12:07 pm

The next morning AK, Pam, and Sean slept in late. After waking tey ate a hearty breakfast of flapjack and sausages with the lodge’s owner on the porch. White rapids surged over the rocky creek and a few clouds dotted the deep blue above the mountain peaks. Ralph spread a map on the table to […]

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