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.
13 Jan 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... Jane, downloading files. IMG-2592.jpg These strange developments baffled us. There was little warning of it, beyond the growing popularity of the televangelists on tv. But most Americans cared little for religion, and this w...
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Previous Chapter ... To the coast. Vox 72499026.0.0.jpg When the police rounded up those in town, in late August, they couldn't be bothered with the families scattered in the rural areas. They didn't have the time or the numbers. It was a rus...
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Previous Chapter ... Happy to be home. Late in September there was a report of a few deaths in Kenya from an unknown disease. An international team of ten doctors was sent, but it was near the border of Kenya and The Democratic Republic of Con...
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Zeus, angry. There was one other story I told to Norma’s daughter, Amaris, in those halcyon days when I was sleeping on Norma’s couch, broke, jobless and twenty four, full of poetry and dreams and careless of the hour. There is something indescribab...
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Previous Chapter ... Building a future, hand in hand. The Loft restored. Bainbridge7.jpg We returned to find our place much as we left it, with a few unexpected improvements. Bill and Rick watched over the place and the few farm animals we bough...
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Previous Post ... Book four is completed The Garden of Earthly delights. Hieronymus Bosch The next twelve weeks Nancy was aglow with her work on the farm with her two helpers, Bill and the younger man, Rick. She was happy to see me at work six o...
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Previous Chapter ... Big plans Back home and happy. Depositphotos Valeri Shranko When she walked back in the kitchen, I could tell by her glow that everything was agreed upon. They mentioned that this was the perfect time for publication, and has...
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Previous Chapter ... Love Sacrificed. Photo by Stephen Hocking https://www.lysias.blog/pand-set Across my desk the smoke rings drifted, some reaching the ceiling and crashing into pieces, others arching sideways, captured within the ventilato...
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Previous Chapter ... My humble think tank where it all started. I was a university graduate, shy and studious during those six years, studious to a fault. My fascination was language and languages. I studied, Latin and Greek and French, English, s...
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The House in the Woods, My health restored. Chapter one. Kanan Khasmamadov on Unsplash The house was deep in the woods, bought two months previous from the money of my two books earned. It was mine yet I never asked for it, and it cost two million,...
