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.
11 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Mary, Paradise Lost I had to finish my contraption. Now that I had my Swiss knife it was easy. I split one end of the wire a foot, striped the ends and poked them through a small hole in each metal tab, twisting them in place. The other end I d...
10 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I felt somewhat better waking up the next morning. I attributed this to the two meals consumed the day before and I wondered if three meals a day might be even better. This would involve pilfering another unit. I put that off for now but not ou...
9 Feb 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Electrocution. The meal revitalized me. My limbs felt weary, aching in fact from the work I'd done. But my mind was active and I wanted to use it. I sat at my table and pondered the question of how I might best jolt my spouse. I glanced around...
9 Feb 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I set my pen down, weary of the horror of what I was recounting. I gazed around the room. It was now night, with only two dim LED s and a streetlight shinning through the parted curtains illuminating my table. Two candles could have provided th...
8 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When Mary slipped back to bed I went to my table. I wanted to write. My head felt very clear and other memories of my past came flooding in. Since I now had an infinity of lucid, waking time I decided to composed all I could remember of our ear...
7 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In my next waking moments one evening I was jolted, shocked, zapped by a revelation as I lay in bed, because it was exactly that, electricity. The context of that word had come back to me, the memory of what John Chambers had told me secretly lon...
7 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The History The tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel. This system quickly grew and did trickle down to include well over 5 billion members by the year 2034. Firewalls were in place to preserve and separate the social classes. You were ranked on your a...
7 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My Notes This was the routine in my head that I had practiced before, and I didn't want to go away right now, even though the realms were calling me. I tightened the string around my thumb until it was purple, and then I moved the string to my ot...
6 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I was lucid again. There must have been a flaw in my chip, because this was not supposed to happen. Even in the few hours each day we appeared to be awake, to eat our food cubes and stretch and wash up, there were prompts and illusions and avata...
5 Feb 2023 2 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
When I was first new to this site and online publishing, a year and a half ago, I made the mistake of posting a short story I had written some eight years earlier entitled 'Wet Chip' in one shot, not realizing that a twenty page, forty minute rea...
