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 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This was disturbing news and completely unexpected. Ted asked if he could examine her cluster in the basement of the complex. That would give him some idea of how much of her was still working. He might even be able to restore sectors that were do...
22 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The next day we drove across the Bay Bridge to the campus. Ted knew it well. That’s where he worked as a tech on the goggles. I put my gun belt on and slung a machine gun over my shoulder just in case and we walked straight into a crowd of glass w...
21 May 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Xenobia It wasn’t hard to find this camp from all the details he’d given. They weren’t in hiding either. I heard the sound of children playing before I came to the bend in the gravel road that led to their camp. I strolled right up to it on my hor...
20 May 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The complex chemistry that makes a man settle down and want to start a family, mostly a lust for a particular woman and the stipulations of pregnancy just didn’t play out the hand I’d been dealt so far in life. I’d never had a steady girlfriend in...
19 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The talk It was late and we retired for the night. I showed Ted and his children a large room with two beds and went to sleep with Beth and our infant now a year old. Across the hall Tom and Jane shared a similar master bedroom with a crib for the...
18 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I suppose my story starts back in two thousand twenty four. My son was two and my daughter six. I had a beautiful wife and a beautiful house right on a beach in Santa Cruz. I’d already made my fortune in the tech industry and at thirty my future s...
18 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We took our guns from our packs. I heard the sound of twigs breaking just out of sight, then a pleading voice: “don’t shoot, don’t shoot. We’re unarmed.” A man stepped into the shadowy light of our almost expired campfire. Two smaller figures foll...
17 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
As we collected our gear and our horses, I decided it would be best to make the two day trek back home and use the truck for the trip to Oregon and check out this clan. On horseback such a distance would take a week each way and if the Indians spo...
16 May 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
As summer approached so did my mission. I chose May and June to accompany me since Amira was so taken with April I didn’t want to tear them apart, in a river of tears. We practiced camping out in the woods several nights and made a day long expedi...
15 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was fortunate that our new arrivals didn’t bring many farm animals because a large redwood grove isn’t the ideal place for a farm. There was one big storage shed a few hundred yards from the lodge and we emptied it of old furniture and turned i...
