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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...
16 May 2023 6 minute read 2 comments stbrians
The Vice~He suddenly was startled from his deep sleep. Automatically his hand involuntarilywent to the table to switch off the alarm. To his utter amazement his alarm was not tobe located. That is when Mackenzie realized that he was in a strange loca...
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...
14 May 2023 6 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
In the months following the two births I had less desire than ever to leave our tiny enclave in search of others. The world was too wide and too dangerous and I knew that bad things could easily happen to me if I set out alone in my truck, either...
13 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The first sign of progress was that they began to ask questions and not just stand mute and wait for explanations as they did at first. Their queries were similar to those of a small child with the word ‘why’ the most frequent. When we framed our...
11 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
After we settled in, explored the grounds, our luxurious lodge, the numerous bedrooms, dens and conference rooms, a kitchen spanning the entire basement stocked with supplies and the outer buildings hidden in the trees encircling ours, it was time...
11 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Jeanne_writes
An hour later Lev walked through the door of his home; the pink residue of tears on his cheeks was a pale reminder of his anguish. Carly was gone now. Forever this time; vanishing into a ball of light, presumably the portal to the “other side”. Hight...
10 May 2023 3 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
Bohemian Grove, presidential retreat. As we continued along the highway the women, including Dora, began chatting more and more excitedly about the prospects and details of raising an infant. But that was something nine months away to my mind whic...
9 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The women were shaken but unharmed. Amira was lying on a bed face up with her blouse ripped off. Beth was kneeling in what looked like a praying position between the bodies of two middle aged, rough looking, bearded men. “You can thank Dora for yo...
8 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments MarkJ011
Once upon a time there was a poor boy named Jack, who lived with his poor alcoholic mother in a poor house near a poor town. One day, Jack's mother was desperate, so she decided to sell the family cow, to raise money for her booze. She called Jack....
