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.
1 Aug 2022 2 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
Tomorrow I will begin to serialize another novel I wrote a few years back. It also takes place in the near future, in this decade, with developments that are taking place right now. I write about what fascinates me, what permutations we as human be...
31 Jul 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... nuclear silo cbsnews.comimages It didn’t take a genius to realize right away that these were the launch codes for whatever was left of our nuclear arsenal. As the pandemic spread in the first years the military realized it cou...
30 Jul 2022 18 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... The forgotten beach house A few days later I drove to his beach house near Pensacola alone. It wasn’t fancy but it was secluded. It was just right for me. No one knew. I lived there in hiding for over a year and made friends w...
29 Jul 2022 17 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... Naomi's Fate By the time I reached our temporary home, John had heard the news on the radio, and spread it through the house. I was welcomed at the door with ridiculous compliments but brushed straight through the crowd, g...
28 Jul 2022 9 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... The Aftermath A mansion with a fountain I thought it best to ride with Jack and Stalker and our entire gang, now numbering over five hundred, on the first expeditions into the interior. The same barriers that contained our...
27 Jul 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... Motorbike school Though I was tied up in these meetings a few days a week, first in New York, then in Boston where general Wilde set up his headquarters, I had other matters to deal with. We were all in military mode, or at le...
26 Jul 2022 15 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... A War Zone Hospital nbc.com The first thing I did was to thank him for carrying the Russian wounded to our hospital. He was sitting at his desk, alone, but I caught him deep in thought. “I’ve followed your suggestions” he said...
25 Jul 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... Back at the highway he put a quarter of his troops to the task of cleaning up the battlefield, repeating the same speech he gave the lieutenant, that these fallen and wounded were all brothers, Russian and American alike,...
24 Jul 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... The Battle The aftermath. bbc.cc.uk We arrived at the outskirts of Springfield around three in the afternoon. The city seemed deserted. Another group of our bikers had joined us and offered to enter the quiet town center and rec...
23 Jul 2022 25 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... The next morning all three of us squeezed on the bike. Miranda was dressed in jeans and a denim jacket which I’d never seen before, probably some relic of Jim’s. But it fit her nicely. She was also wearing a pair of tight, black...
