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.
13 Mar 2023 9 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
The body and even the mind of the old priest were now growing feeble. The young and ambitious priests under him intrigued and maneuvered against each other to catch the power that would soon slip from his hands. But they had somehow po...
12 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Nicky, a likeness We’d received a notice, slipped under each door, that the premises were about to close down, that everyone had to vacate soon and find a new place. We figured we had about a week.I decided to take on one last adventure, as...
12 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Again he reached the ruined lighthouse and then the view of the town far ahead. It was really a discreditable, little place. He wondered why it had been allowed to exist at all, why the people hadn’t been shipped off to a regular city...
11 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This is a preface to the last of my warehouse days and my brief acquaintance with Nicky, a streetwalker. I befriended her as a case study because I had read the novella, 'Maggie, a girl of the streets' by Steven Crane, an author who cannot be...
11 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was a calm mid-afternoon when Jonathan set down his pen. He was a little surprised, now that he thought about it, that the pen was still working. It was the only one he had. He tried to take it apart to find out how much ink was le...
11 Mar 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I left the warehouse the same way I left the Plough in the Spring of 78 and San Diego in July of 80, burnt out and badly in need of a rest. But this time I didn’t go the three thousand miles to the sterility of Niagara Falls, but fourteen bloc...
10 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
As the plague still took a large, weekly toll, our city kept pulling in its boundaries. Many times whole acres of glasshouse facilities had to be piece-by-piece relocated. The areas given up were burned and then razed to the ground so...
10 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Our first date was great. I made no record of the second but I do remember she visited me at the warehouse the following Saturday and we had a wonderful day and night of it, doing lines and drinking beers, introducing her to my friends there, tal...
