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.
2 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I realized that all pretense was vain with this man who freely offered to me what I had let slip to him. I told him, in a halting voice, that I was not what I seemed, that I had come from far away and had little time. He was curious to...
2 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
CHAPTER THREE By our campfire that night we decided that there were three questions we had to answer; where this highway to the north led, what the squads of men were doing upon it, and what cities or towns lay further up the coast, thre...
1 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
On a happier note I’ll choose my friend Jim (Jimbo) to describe next. He was a tall, broad-shouldered, all Irish, beer drinker and belcher extraordinaire, the most joyful, jovial and joking of our group and the only one who was three or four years...
1 Mar 2023 9 minute read 3 comments Diomedes
One morning, as we were breaking camp at the river's edge, there came out of nowhere a young man dressed in furs, wearing a fur cap and carrying a rifle on each shoulder. He asked if he could join us. We gathered round him and asked wh...
1 Mar 2023 6 minute read 3 comments Diomedes
I’m tired of talk of myself, you too probably. So I’ll make a short detour to other subjects. I keep mentioning my friends in this narrative, but to the reader they are only shadowy names. So I’ll take the time now to give each one a longer or sh...
28 Feb 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
By early summer we settled in the recess of a river valley on the eastern slope. There was a fine meadow and steep wooded hills all around. There were fish in the river and in a small lake nearby. The hardships of the journey and the...
28 Feb 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Louise Brooks I ended the description of my night with Tracy with: she was home by eleven. I forgot to mention that she lived with her parents still, a definite deterrent to any of her chosen dates trying to continue their pursuit of her after sh...
28 Feb 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Dale was great in both sex and affection, the most complete woman I was graced to know, and consistently charming, thus the poems which she elicited and merited, a piece of my heart. Tracy was superlative in sex, off the charts, surpassing the wil...
27 Feb 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
"That was one happy period in my life," he thought, "when I learned to live comfortably in the wilderness." He mused upon it a little more and the thought struck him that this would be a painless way to commence his history, by simply p...
27 Feb 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Zenobia The Tyranny of Beauty To compare the other one-night stand that month, in terms of sex with Tracy is like deflating a balloon with a pin. Jim invited me to a Halloween party at somebody’s house nearby, someone I didn’t know. It was a nice,...
