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.
18 Nov 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My arrangement with Sanita, in exchange for the four hundred a month, was that Will would visit me four times a year, Christmas, Summer, Easter and for some strange reason, Columbus day for four or five days, missing some school if necessary. It chan...
17 Nov 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A sound studio and working with Buddy again. Sanita reconnects, for money. The job in Manhattan went smoothly, lasting seven weeks. It was located in the last blocks left of what was called ‘Little Italy’. Chinatown was encroaching in on every sid...
16 Nov 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Postscript to an aging courtesan The harmonic rephrasing of reality. Wallpaperflair.com I gave her the name ‘Claire’, defined her character, charted its evolution, its powers to control minds and save humanity in the near future. That strange ba...
15 Nov 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
One last encounter at the motel Too strange to omit. The Housewife. Wallhaven.cc/tag/6549 One sight was too strange not to mention. The last two weeks at the motel Gomez hooked up with a perfectly normal looking woman in her mid-thirties. She ha...
14 Nov 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A whole new universe of prostitution for me to witness, as I’d never been to Florida before. Our motel room, the first night. The other prong of my nightmare was our lodgings. From the outside it looked like a perfectly respectable two story, mid-...
13 Nov 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Broke and unemployed, and a one-way ticket to Florida, another adventure. Renovation of the Orlando International Airport, 1998. One morning, two weeks later, after one brief, unsatisfying phone call from her the week before and five minutes of ta...
12 Nov 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
An aging coke whore And the full story of Jaime’s broken back. vjn2q.bn.files I met her four months after meeting Dan when Gomez was staying with me. He brought her to my house one night, walking her up the grassy hill in pitch darkness, towards...
12 Nov 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Before my narrative takes me to Florida I want to include a one night encounter with a woman that Gomez chanced to meet and brought over to my open kitchen deck late one night for a party of three. She was a stranger yet she played a role in the li...
11 Nov 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Kim departs Gomez moves in. Kim. Short-Haircut.com Gomez stayed at Jean’s and Kim went back to her place, but now there were three surfers there besides herself, a little uncomfortable as the bedroom was two bunk beds. I sat in my cottage and su...
10 Nov 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I'm a little out of order here in my time. This piece should have been inserted about five pieces ago as it introduces Tom and Paola, a couple I met a few weeks before the Caguas Mall began. But it explains some things that followed and is too amus...
