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.
9 Aug 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sometimes in the night, in Dora's arms, I felt her quiver, a brief tremor in our bedtime repose. I wondered what it could be, perhaps a question in her head she could no longer answer, a complex mathematical equation she could no longer solve and...
4 Aug 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
We drove across to the Atlantic seaboard, as close as we could get to it, being an even more godforsaken place, once called 'the mosquito coast'. Further north we crossed Belize and then into Yucatan, where, curiously enough, we stopped to see sev...
3 Aug 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When we finally did steer our course back to Oregon it was to return Ted to our farming community. Now in his fifties he was weary of this never-ending camping escapade. He missed June, his wife, and wanted to sleep in his bed with her again, with...
27 Jul 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
Last post: https://www.publish0x.com/robert-oreilly/love-xgnddjn vocal.media post With Dora fully restored, in her soft skin and titanium core, my thoughts gravitated to the question of her mind, and what makes for a lasting relationship between a...
20 Jul 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
vocal post Substack post Our first mission was to find a lab with the tools and parts to repair her. She directed us to the lab and hive at MIT after I told her Sarah had left it intact. Within a week Ted had her arm replaced and fully functional. T...
12 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Early the next morning Ted was outside our hotel examining Dora's wounds, lying still asleep in a catatonic state on the bed of our truck. She was missing the lower half of her left arm, and her hair had been horribly singed, as if hit from a flame...
11 Jul 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This time we outfitted a new, two-seater truck with all of our familiar camping gear, a few rifles, as this was no search and destroy mission, and boxes of Ted's surveillance equipment. He was glad to come along with us to operate it. Ours was a 'se...
11 Jul 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
https://www.publish0x.com/robert-oreilly/a-happy-getaway-xzrlzyx I think the pony she befriended became her closest friend, as she talked to it more than she did to me, on our day-long treks, feeding it treats. Our course was zigzag as I steered us f...
28 Jun 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Over tea I began to fill her in on the latest developments of my teeming mind, my new agenda: "We're going to take a drive today, back to civilization, back to where my partner Sarah is training a group of people I call 'droids'. They look like adul...
21 Jun 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Last post Next post We set off down the dirt road and soon on a highway. I figured we'd drive a few hours into the night just to get away, to distance ourselves from these throwbacks and the hardships she must have felt living with them. I wanted to...
