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 Jul 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Cat Woman. Victor’s Match. The evening Victor rented us the furnished condo in Isla Verde he asked Mickey and me to come view it, since we were going to live there. So we came along, about six p.m. Of course we loved the luxury and the location....
14 Jul 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Victor’s company, my creation. Choices remain, same people, different dress codes. To be fair I know there are men equally fastidious and on the opposite end of the spectrum, brutes among us that seem to belong to the paleolithic era, too crude in t...
12 Jul 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Madeline Dream on. Madeline.beige hair woman wearing black jacket photo — Free Blonde Image on Unsplash (dogedoge.com) Madeline deserves notice. She was a blond Puerto Rican, a rarity, a gem. She was maybe five feet tall and ninety pounds, wi...
12 Jul 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
As for work, our company was at it’s peak of prosperity. I was running three or four store build-outs at a time, doing all the incoming bids in my office room several mornings each week, and mildly flirting with Victor’s beautiful secretary Madeline,...
12 Jul 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sanita, with her money in hand, spent it all within another month buying a worthless lot in a valley a mile away, almost a ravine, a jungle plot thick with mosquitoes, and none of it flat, so that it would have to be bulldozed for weeks just to start...
9 Jul 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
See you next Sunday. A few times in those months, with frequent visits to Jim’s, after Mike was out of the picture, the thought crossed my mind to date her, or at least propose the idea. She was fifteen years younger than me but mature in ma...
9 Jul 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In the next six month’s Mike’s crack habit spiralled out control, with him spending most of each paycheck on it, not eating right, just going on three day binges every Friday in some hole with like-minded buddies, avoiding Rachel. He began to look s...
7 Jul 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Dinner at Sanita’s every Sunday night, for three years. Vanessa was a tomboy and loved hiking through the hills with Ben, Jeff and Willy. In the dry season they’d slide down the steep hill below my house on cardboard sheets, as fast as skies on sn...
6 Jul 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When the stores started rolling in I went to a party down the street at Bill’s (though I didn’t like him), Becky's former husband. I met two Americans that day, both claiming to be electricians, and hired them on the spot, Irving and Mike. Irving was...
5 Jul 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Best friends. This change began in the three years after our separation, the beginning of his hatred of her, a clash of personalities which increased every year as his character developed and solidified. He was like me, loved my company and attent...
