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.
30 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sedona We set out again, the four of us along with June, at Ted’s insistence, and Juliet, this time in a limousine for a comfortable ride. Juliet had to be carried to her seat. We were still missing critical parts to her hip joints and she would n...
29 Dec 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sarah and Hannah had to review all the files that were now implanted in their heads on how to remove the uterus and ovaries’. One of our own women wanted a hysterectomy because of the incessant pains after her second child born this year. The timi...
27 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I resume my unfinished novel, after a long intermission caused by a string of unforeseeable sublunary vicissitudes. We spent the next month at Juliet’s bedside, now wheeled into our laboratory, designing an embryonic sac that could gestate a human...
2 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Beautiful Beth I continued my long and prolix speech at the dinner table, which after weeks of my complete silence seemed eagerly welcome. "My simple goal is to find Dora once again and forgive her, kiss her hand and offer a complete cessation of...
2 Oct 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
"I know from my past relations with Dora, many of them intimate, that she was not only not opposed to our human minds, but intrigued by them. In fact, she was fascinated by us and with her vastly more comprehensive intelligence she knew that there...
1 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I forced myself that next dinner to ask Ted about the progress of his stun gun experiments on the robotic parts we had retrieved and reactivated, much to his surprise. He had been working with Sheila and Hanna daily on this project as if it were t...
1 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I suppose you can call me an equitable and peace loving man. I never wanted to return harm with more harm. I never desired a fight. My own history shows that when the troubles began I chose flight over fight, hiding in the woods for so many years,...
30 Sep 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Over the following weeks we continued our grim talks on how to annihilate our enemy. It was never a pleasant conversation and everyday seemed even more depressing and hopeless as we realized their insurmountable advantages. I mentioned that in any...
29 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In a few months time every member of our tribe, even the children over three, had our bands on our heads, their filaments slowly lengthening and weaving through our minds, connecting to thousands more synapses everyday. It gave each of us a fresh...
28 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The four of us, Ted, Hanna, Sarah and I spent many more weeks in our lab dissecting every component of Pandora's goggles over and over again til we felt confident that we understood the functionality of every piece. We viewed all the data bases of...
