Fiction

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An education

22 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  The next day we drove across the Bay Bridge to the campus. Ted knew it well. That’s where he worked as a tech on the goggles. I put my gun belt on and slung a machine gun over my shoulder just in case and we walked straight into a crowd of glass w...

Before the sudden death

22 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment espacioreal

There are those who walk the worldwithout staining your feet,that go in and out of lovelike a supermarket or a hairdresser's,that before the sudden death of a birdthey open a yawn in the mouth of the world.There are those who walk the timewithout imp...

Xenobia

21 May 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Xenobia It wasn’t hard to find this camp from all the details he’d given. They weren’t in hiding either. I heard the sound of children playing before I came to the bend in the gravel road that led to their camp. I strolled right up to it on my hor...

Strange encounter

20 May 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  The complex chemistry that makes a man settle down and want to start a family, mostly a lust for a particular woman and the stipulations of pregnancy just didn’t play out the hand I’d been dealt so far in life. I’d never had a steady girlfriend in...

The language of ivrit ( עברית ) Genesis 40, Post #4

19 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments hebrew

Welcome to my Hebrew reading & language series.   Genesis 40:16-23 source Today we are finishing chapter forty as well as the dual interpretation of the Pharaoh's servant's dreams. Congratulations for following along for the first forty c...

Wanderlust

19 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  The talk It was late and we retired for the night. I showed Ted and his children a large room with two beds and went to sleep with Beth and our infant now a year old. Across the hall Tom and Jane shared a similar master bedroom with a crib for the...

The holocaust

18 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  I suppose my story starts back in two thousand twenty four. My son was two and my daughter six. I had a beautiful wife and a beautiful house right on a beach in Santa Cruz. I’d already made my fortune in the tech industry and at thirty my future s...

Fragment 81

18 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

The chamber is blandly furnished.  A grey tenement tepidly illumined by a few grey candles, and tin lantern-forks. Like silence, made skin and temporality, she drifts and snakes down the low lintel and onto a rough-planked floor blotted by the sour d...

Suppliants

18 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  We took our guns from our packs. I heard the sound of twigs breaking just out of sight, then a pleading voice: “don’t shoot, don’t shoot. We’re unarmed.” A man stepped into the shadowy light of our almost expired campfire. Two smaller figures foll...

Awakening the Alien (Original Poetry)

18 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Krisz Rokk

I laid dormant for decadeswaiting for the host to be readyto finally release me into the open. I waited patientlygaining more knowledgecontinuing to accumulate powerto make my appearance count. Years would pass by without noticean inner crumbling des...