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.
7 Sep 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The following weeks proved to be a happy and recuperative period in Jonathan’s life, by virtue of the pleasant occupation that filled them, reading through nearly all the miscellaneous literature he’d discovered. He forgot about any serious purpo...
6 Sep 2022 5 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
Burning books, todayfoundout.com The world was in terrible disorder at that time. It was the second long year of the epidemic. There was economic collapse, widespread famine and crisis in the government of every nation. But it wasn't jus...
6 Sep 2022 13 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A rara find, mylittlemagicshop.com Afterwards Jonathan was shown to a bare, narrow cell in the back of the temple. It was a guest-room containing only a simple cot, a mat, a chair and a small table with two candles on it, already lit. T...
5 Sep 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jonathan "I, Jonathan Winslow, the most reprobate of sinners, unholy, unclean, renegade do hereby admit by this act of writing, this desecration of the white page, that I am guilty of a capital offence and deserve to be put to death by fire. I he...
5 Sep 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I wrote this book twenty five years ago in Seattle, where I lived with my wife and child and worked as a self-employed and often unemployed electrician. That I post it now, after all these years may seem odd, but the ability to write a novel and...
31 Aug 2022 23 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Jane, howtobearedhead.com The following morning Monique rushed to Rollo’s room and woke him up with a hug. We were close behind her to witness the rendezvous. Rollo was confused at first as Monique was acting so differently. But then Clair...
31 Aug 2022 10 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
The Screen This kept her a busy being. She delegated authority well, to the thousands of able helpers in her system, and the tens of thousands standing ready to serve in our physical world. Still, she always found the time, in one small partitio...
30 Aug 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Monique being taken away, smiling at grief. marieclaire.com We arrived back at the house and found Mary inside, alone. She was elated to see us, bursting with joy as she ran to Scout and clasped her. We proceeded to the living room to hear the n...
30 Aug 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Idaho We gathered the children from the library, turned out the lights and locked the house. We got in the van and started driving north, Charlie taking the first turn at the wheel. In the seat behind us, the children sat in the gloom and wer...
29 Aug 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Grave, thegardener.co.za The next day started off a sunny and seemingly normal day, just like any Thursday morning. We rose early, had breakfast together and I drove Scout to school. On the drive home I thought of Charlie. I made a quick tur...
