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22 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Datsun 240Z As one enters the underworld, I realized, there begins a whole different way of looking at things, a new perspective, as complicated as the difference between checkers and chess. Human dealings and relationships grow infinitely more co...
21 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Looks like Dave, only better dressed. We took the drive in my Volare to the flatlands of Alameda and pulled into the parking lot of a cheap, long, two-story motel. It was one of those places you could rent rooms by the week at a much lower rate, w...
20 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A Toyota Starlet Her Brothers and Dave Another world Lindsey had two brothers, two and three years younger, who had followed her out to California from their parent’s home in New Jersey a few years earlier. One was in a mental institution in Fre...
19 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Petrarch But this love followed one other period of my young adult life, in my last three years at university, where I was equally enraptured, spellbound and captured in every way. Because the imagination controls all and can make one book into a...
18 Mar 2023 4 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
Love I wrote that I was placing my hopes and future in her but knew that this implied a loss of former hopes, including my plans to be a solitary, full-time writer (which it did). How fickle our lives were, like leaves in the wind. Then I noted, i...
17 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Here's a piece out of my journal, when I first moved into Steve's and the week before Lindsay moved in: I don’t have the exact date, but towards the end of September I moved to Steve’s empty pad with a telephone call and spent the first days there...
17 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Lindsey's brother Ally always reminded me of Charles Manson, same hair and beard, only smiling. Lindsey moves in. It was a mid-afternoon, as I recall, (it’s not in my journal, this unexpected tsunami) but it was totally unannounced, surprising and...
15 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A Durer woodblock My friend Steve was visiting Boston for a month and kindly offered me his flat while away. This was a few days before I left the warehouse and Nikki forever. He rented the bottom flat of a dilapidated Victorian house, two block...
14 Mar 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Before I continue on with my story at the point of leaving the ghetto forever, I'd like to share a few things I gathered there on the huge injustice of wealth inequality For any of you who've read my other posts, like the last one, you'll see that...
14 Mar 2023 12 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Up in smoke. “Next Scott bangs on the door, all irate, yelling: “Is Nicky in there”. I answer the door. The mirror and lines are still on the table and Nicky is holding a napkin to her bleeding arm. Scott bursts in and sits at the desk, while I r...
