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.
14 Aug 2022 15 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A deserted Bay Bridge ca.hotels.com I woke up in my bed, disoriented. It was morning. I could tell by the texture of the light. I saw, standing around my bed in a circle, not only Claire, Naomi and Scout but also Jane, Mary and Samantha. “I mus...
13 Aug 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Scout guarding the pump. ebay.com At the beginning of the path we’d made the day before, where the brush was thicker, there stood Scout, like a sentry. “You can’t come in” she stated. “Why not?” I asked. “They’re taking their first forest shower,...
13 Aug 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The treasure. nutsvolt.com We left him alone to organize his gear. Jaime and I spent the rest of the afternoon filling gas cans for the generator, siphoning it from the useless cars. We went through the camper next door, finding two more empty g...
12 Aug 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Charlie, before the chip. projects.aljezeera.com “Jaime” I said, “things seem to be falling in place and working out surprisingly well. Let’s visit this friend of yours while we’re on a roll.” I turned to the others, “Jaime and I have one more er...
12 Aug 2022 11 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
the overgrown backyard I embraced her once again, and we held each other, in silence, for several minutes, Scout standing quietly at our side. So long, in fact, it was the commotion downstairs that brought us back to the real world. We joined the...
11 Aug 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The car that worked. Stangbangers.com I awoke in Claire’s arms, or, more poetically, her charms. Her eyelids must have opened the same moment mine did, dewy-eyed and happy. We smiled, inches apart, to a new day, having no idea what that might fo...
11 Aug 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The EMP blast, sciencefriday.com Jaime's story continued: “He disappeared on us. We were tailing him as he left this house. We wanted to take him with us. But he stopped his car next to Tilden park and began running. My associates lost him. H...
10 Aug 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Claire, wallhere.com “I don’t consider myself pessimistic” I thought to myself, “yet this degree of happiness does not subsist in any human affairs.” And in retrospect I was right. We spent the next hour tearing into a three-volume set called...
10 Aug 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Samantha restored, therestored.com The next morning was as bright and as splendid as the morning Naomi woke up all better, or the morning Akiko did at the hospital, only now it was fourfold. Scout snuck into Samantha’s room at break of dawn, waki...
9 Aug 2022 13 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Samantha unsplash.com by Zachary Kyra Derksen As Mr. Tanaki began feeling the exhilarating perks of having his brain power increased a hundredfold and his daughter in a similar Elysium, they decided to stay with us for a while. We passed the afte...
