1,260 Articles 3 Followers
28 Sep 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jonathan was tackled from behind and shoved down to the floor. He hit hard and found himself lying right next to the fallen Bishop, who was unconscious and bleeding from the temple. Jonathan's arms were then pinned behind his back and he wa...
28 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The next day they pushed hard to reach their destination by nightfall. Jonathan even carried the girl on his back quite a ways, talking to her and laughing to break the tedium. When they arrived at nightfall everyone gathered excitedly in t...
27 Sep 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Widow and Child It was almost dark when he left this inspection and began trudging back through town to his burro. He was walking along deep in thought, immersed in the problems of transporting large loads over pathless hills. Whether it was...
26 Sep 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The deserted town As Jonathan decided that this would be another holiday, he spent a portion of it cooking and serving them meals and trying to entertain them in between. They weren’t much used to leisure and had no idle pastimes, so he...
26 Sep 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Simon and Eve Along the way he kicked over all the rocks he’d set up to mark the path. From the last hilltop he looked back upon the sleepy town and knew that the next sunrise would bring them a day of mourning for the loss of the only...
26 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
That day they veered south towards the highway. The next point on Jonathan’s list was adjacent to the road. It’d been a larger town along the way which he knew would be demolished by now. But he was hoping to see its remnants and two tall...
25 Sep 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Robinson Crusoe They continued their trip west at a quick pace, stopping each night at one of the stations along the way. It was now mid-winter and they heard reports of snow blocking the highway further west. So they lingered in the s...
24 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
But despite this intravenous crisis, the wheels of bureaucracy still ground and groaned, trying hard to maintain a semblance of normality and order. Early the next morning Jonathan was again summoned before the board and without further ques...
23 Sep 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
On the day before their departure Jonathan was allowed to take his disciples on a walking tour of the city of White Syd. Its workhouses and glasshouses were as impressive as any he’d seen and his wide-eyed followers drank in the sights and a...
23 Sep 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It wasn’t long after these discoveries that he began his school of bookmaking. At one end of the long cabin he made a slanted table with tall stools, a scriptorium where three could sit together and copy out the contents of a wax tablet set...
