I am educated in the Western Classical Tradition, B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in Latin and Greek, English major, one year at U. of Toronto, studied under Alain Renoir and Northrop Frye, read most classics full time for many years after university in French, English, Latin and Greek to the modern day. I am interested in the near future of technology, what changes it imposes upon our heritage and character as humans. Short stories and Essays are my medium.
5 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
That morning as we headed west, The bright sunlight shining in, a full tank of gas and the windows rolled down, Amira had a large smile upon her face, in the best of moods. I thought this might be a good hour to ask her a few questions. Until answ...
4 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Pandora It was a crisp, clear summer morning and as we emerged from the alley onto the avenue she said: I can feel the sun on my face. I usually don’t come out in the daylight.” “Let’s find some food and then we’ll take a drive and talk. The band...
3 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We were on the outskirts of the city when this conversation occurred. I determined right then that I wasn’t going to enter this grid. I had guns with me but they outnumbered me by far. They might tie me to a bed and put the goggles on my head and...
2 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was just as I was lying down in the large, poster bed of some vanished millionaire that my band, my collar, came to life again. I think Dora could sense this and took it as an opportune moment to beguile me. “Sam, are you about to sleep for the...
2 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
She fell silent. I was full of thoughts. I walked slowly through this mall, gazing into the storefronts as if shopping, but I needed none of it. You might think that my life in the woods alone, and with my brother the three years before that was a...
1 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I came across my first clue in the first city I entered heading south, the city of Barrie. There, in an otherwise empty mall I found a corpse, the body of an older man recently dead, slumped over on a bench in the concourse. I’m no mortician but h...
30 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This is the first page of a novel I am just beginning to compose. It's about the journey of a free man in the near future, 2030, after AI has wiped out nearly all of mankind, not through violence but persuasion, as almost everyone wears wrap around...
29 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Definitely ‘old school’. All good writing requires a command of the English language, a practice in phrasing one’s ideas in the most apt, concise, flowing and even poetic language possible. I’ve heard very intelligent people dismiss the...
29 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sanita’s ever-changing hairstyles. Our move to Upper Lake, or rather a large and brand new A-frame on a wooded hillside ten miles up a winding dirt road, in the middle of nowhere, with not another house in sight and our nearest neighbor five mil...
28 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
At a party at Ted’s warehouse in August 1987 and where I ran into ‘A’ again. At the warehouse where Ted Falcony lived, the guitarist for the band ‘Flipper’ I ran into my old partner 'A', not seen in a year. Ted was my friend now and invited us o...
