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.
23 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We never told the rest of our group about Sarah’s aberration and her three week separation from us. It was easy because they never asked. We told them the details of our itinerary and the rather dull findings as if we’d all been together the whole...
22 Jan 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Elizabeth The only person who wasn’t enjoying serene happiness was Sarah. She had not only just been through a traumatic life and death situation, she had to admit to a huge mistake on her part and the change of heart and ways that it decreed. Thi...
19 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We arrived back in Phoenix on the second day. We could have pulled in the night before but we had a delicate issue to resolve with Sarah and wanted many hours for talks. In fact we stayed up half the night discussing what arguments would best wi...
17 Jan 2024 3 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Crawling out of the slime. Devonian era, our precursor. It was a mistake that almost erased the human race and the few of us left had but one mission in life, to correct it, or else lead lives hiding in the shadows without any purpose except survi...
12 Jan 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
I lived in the apartment above that entrance. I read an article today by someone imagining what salutary advice he would give to himself if he could send it back twenty years in time. He is forty now and supposed he had the chance for a few moment...
10 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We reached Austin the next day after staying in some cattle baron’s, or oil baron’s mansion in west Texas. It was over a century old and finely furnished, a strange place to find in what I would call a near desert of arid flatlands, stretching eve...
7 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Memories I was still hopeful that Sarah would miss us and rejoin our group as soon as we returned her way. Juliet was now in her third trimester and so our numbers were increasing, not the opposite. As the drive was a long one, with Ted at the whe...
5 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was sad to admit that our fragile expedition was now reduced by one, lessened, diminished in its potential. I felt myself responsible for this as a leader but as the five of us set out for Austin I sat in the back seat of the limo mulling over...
2 Jan 2024 3 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
It was an oriental drama, an almost perverse scene, Babylon, and this was in daylight. Who knows what it was by night, as she’d been absent from our sleeping quarters the last three, without explanation. It was like when Alexander first broke the...
31 Dec 2023 5 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
We roamed the facility the next morning, ignoring the visor-clad, human droids as they went about their chores. We found everything just as we had left it until we came to the far end of the basement. There we saw a dead robot lying on an operatin...
