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.
26 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When Dave mentioned his plan to return home we began to search for another apartment. He needed to go home and Lindsey and I didn’t feel safe on 22nd ave. without him and his Uzi. We found a nice one-bedroom apartment on 11th, ave. and 14th St. Th...
25 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
At this point Jonathan paused in writing his narrative. He noticed that the last few lines were lighter than the others and realized with a start that his pen was running out of ink. "Oh what a fool I am," he said to himself l...
25 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Lindsey and I made a temporary truce. She swore she’d never do such a thing again. My two-week trip to Canada also helped calm this upheaval. I knew she was going to sleep with Dave but that didn’t bother me. I liked him more every day, felt for h...
25 Mar 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was at this unlucky juncture that I rode up with my cavalry force, in my path around the lakes. The instant I arrived it came into our Marshall's head to try a cavalry assault before the other army arrived, so that all the glory of a...
24 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The red dress The dark clouds gathered over the month of November and finally the storm burst one night in one loud thunderclap. It wasn’t the end. It was the beginning of tearful apologies on one’s knees and pitiful whimpering. I’d never seen thi...
24 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I could see right away that these people were not Indians. Nor were they scrupulously white. Their skins were tan and without ointment. We could see this because the men were shirtless and in shorts. The women also wore shorts and co...
23 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Paris, city of love. Dave told me he became a heroin addict some five years earlier while visiting Amsterdam for six months. His parents were rich and he said his grandmother was one of the richest women in Israel. He was an only child, no sibli...
23 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
By summer we’d reached flatlands, once the farmlands of America. Now they were grasslands dotted with woods and lakes and crisscrossed with streams. In some places we came upon forests of young trees. The rainfall of the last decade,...
23 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The line at the Methadone clinic. The only other people we met in those four months was our neighbor, Felicia and her three-year-old daughter. She lived in the unit next to ours. She was in her early twenties, a little overweight but sexy, and our...
22 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The chief and I, our five scouts, spent a much more active winter. When weather permitted, we set off with guns to hunt and explore the surrounding hills. We constructed snowshoes, and soon after wooden skies, as much for our amusement...
