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.
27 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
CHAPTER TWO The following weeks proved to be a happy and recuperative period in Jonathan's life, by virtue of the pleasant occupation that filled them, of reading through nearly all the miscellaneous literature he had discovered. He for...
26 Feb 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Tracy This next excerpt is definitely ‘X’ rated and racy, because it was Tracy, (I can’t avoid a cheap pun. It shows that some sub-level on my brain is still working), but I include it as a preface to what follows, my overall view of women and bea...
26 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Before I started dating Dale I never noticed my shabby clothes. They were my workman’s pride. But with her on my arm my eyes were opened all of a sudden and my ragged clothes even made me feel shabby. So I wrote this sonnet on the subject but I n...
26 Feb 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
He sat there doting on this project a long time. He was all alone, in the middle of nowhere and he knew it. He began reminiscing on a night some twenty-five years past when he was a young man at the university. It was another night of...
25 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Western Australia It was in the morning as he was gathering up his bedroll that he noticed the hinges beneath him. In a moment he uncovered a latch and a cloud of dust flew up in his face as he disturbed the air of the cellar. It settled...
25 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I called Rex the next morning and secured the job. It was a dream job that lasted two months. We built a second story on the house he and his wife and their baby lived in. He taught me carpentry. He only paid me eight dollars an hour, (same as Rob...
25 Feb 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The oak tree The day was still cool as Jonathan Winslow set out over the hills in a north-easterly direction. He decided not to follow the coast the way he had come. He worried that the townspeople might follow him a little ways and...
24 Feb 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My life again entered what I would call an idyllic phase over the next year. I would move two times in that period, but each was into a new and stimulating scene. The poker games and table followed me in each of these transitions, so that didn’t c...
24 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jonathan was not slow in gleaning that his plans were now dashed into nothing. He realized that his stature in this dusty town was too elevated to be impeached. "If only I hadn’t brought my staff," he thought. But then he tried agai...
23 Feb 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Kips Preeminent too was her voice, so feminine I could not imagine one more so, often soft, but even when harsh and angered still beautiful, not loud, feminine with sighs of exasperation. The voice too reflects the soul, and I have noticed in many...
