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.
8 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Before I describe this life changing trip, I should paint two precursors to it, that made the thing happen. The first is a glimpse of my time in the hills, colorful but in part miserable, prompting me to take this getaway Louie and Robin offered,...
8 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
There were about thirty men standing around him now, who had collected like moths to his torchlight. He turned to them and asked if anyone had made plans of breaking out. "We have been chosen," one older man said pleadingly. ...
7 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My work up North the first weeks was richly successful and invigorating. The new, very different and intriguing company of ‘K’, the fresh air, long walks alone by day in empty hills, relative sobriety, good sleep and meals which ‘K’ made, (nothing...
7 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jonathan was tackled from behind and shoved down to the floor. He hit hard and found himself lying right next to the fallen Bishop, who was unconscious and bleeding from the temple. Jonathan's arms were then pinned behind his back and...
6 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
No man and woman in their early thirties, so apart from the rest of the world, so alone and stuck together in a lonely cabin in the middle of nowhere for three weeks, day and night, didn’t think of sex. It would be as natural a thought as eating o...
6 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
He made good progress down the deserted coastline, anchoring by night in coves or on beaches. On the fifth day he spied another abandoned town, several miles up an estuary. But he continued skirting the coast and two days later reached...
5 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Life with a new partner. ‘K’ had previously run a small restaurant, a hamburger joint, in some little town up north with her female lover who was such a radical lesbian that she had recently broken up with ‘K’ and moved to a compound of like-minde...
5 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Nightmare The woman retired to the other room with her daughter, bidding Jonathan good night. Before falling asleep he remembered the little boats bobbing in the harbor. He’d sometimes gone sailing as a boy and thought that if he stayed close to...
4 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Northern California I see in this record a little bit of development in my own character. I clearly recognized that all relationships come at a price and that in some cases the sacrifice was too costly to pay. The break-up with Lindsey taught me t...
4 Apr 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The town deserted He set out one morning after embracing each of his disciples. He didn't want such an emotional parting, but it happened all the same. He set his course as before, for the coast and the fisherman, with the hop...
