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 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The world remained entirely focused on the congress and watched it with increasing hope, with day after day of remarkable progress. On the seventh day, to commemorate the miracle of the first gathering, a world holiday was declared and...
9 Mar 2023 2 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
I'm not by nature or character a nay-sayer. I'm a happy and positive human being. But I'm also focused on the hard, daily facts that advancing technology presents to my open eyes and I see a drastic and negative change in our near future, in eve...
8 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Tina Before I describe my final days at the warehouse and the events that led up to my necessary, lucky departure, I’ll paint a brief picture of what it was like to live there those two months, because it was so different any scene I’d experienced...
8 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This was a rather strange thought from one so deep under the earth. But we didn’t pause to ponder the matter. The Secretary quickly moved on to the easel in the bright illumination of the camera lights, and, pinching the corner of the...
8 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Painting by Arvydas Martin, reminds me of Rob Coolins work with half- hidden figures Now on to other denizens of the warehouse. Next to me lived Rob C. I was at the end of the long hall where the ‘L’ began and he was one into it. He was a very tal...
7 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Warehouse I met many new people when I moved into the warehouse. It was a large building, two floors, in the flatlands and ghetto of Berkeley. All the other structures around it were run down houses or small businesses or other warehouses, a...
7 Mar 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
The catalyst in this strange formula was the plague. When it suddenly broke out the whole might of our medical industry was rallied against it, and in the first few months there was some hope of a vaccine. But the swiftness with which...
7 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Michelle's girlfriend, the nymphomaniac. “Sunday. June 30th, 7:30 a.m. After writing the preceding bit, I grew restless and paced about in indecision for fifteen minutes, wanting company. (Ali, Lindsey’s brother had stopped by Jim’s several times...
6 Mar 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
The sheik look The march of human progress had been for the most part a steady, if not stately, thing up to this point. Though the earth had been groaning ever more plaintively under its burden of people, and local wars and Eco-disasters came and...
6 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
So then she vanishes for another three months, leaving me in total limbo. I probably doted on her quite a bit in the following days because she did give me little signals that she liked me, from the warm and intimate conversations we’d had in Febr...
