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13 Sep 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Hayward I brooded and dozed to uneasy dreams until I heard a bullhorn in the street the next morning, commanding one and all to attend a general meeting, where instructions and food cards would be given out. I fell in with my neighbors...
12 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The White Screen But the next few months proved me right, with each new step of this "innocuous" revolution. To keep up the spirit of the faith, gatherings were held every morning and evening. These were loud and crowded affairs where...
12 Sep 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Blank Book That pure, white cloth had a marked effect on the diseased psyche of mankind. In the following days, either by chance or pre-arrangement, a small council of scholars and former disciples and aides of Luke, along with two popul...
11 Sep 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The last picture The catalyst in this strange formula was the plague. When it suddenly broke out the whole might of our medical industry was rallied against it and in the first few months there was some hope of a vaccine. But the swiftn...
11 Sep 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Herbert Luke It's high time, I think, to look back a few more years and relate what I have been putting off in this narrative, that is, a brief history of the fall, and the first causes that brought on our revolution. It was a horri...
10 Sep 2022 17 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
My invention, 123rf.com Spring was here with its milder weather. My duties were light and varied, my health returned, and I enjoyed a pleasant renaissance of intellectual life. My curiosity revived. Around the huge, shadowy whales of pr...
10 Sep 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A new continental highway Spring was here with its milder weather. My duties were light and varied, my health returned, and I enjoyed a pleasant renaissance of intellectual life. My curiosity revived. Around the huge, shadowy whales of...
9 Sep 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Wax tablet, twitter.com That first morning I could barely walk. I was led with the rest to the nearby wharves. The leader of our squad was the man who had pointed out my bunk. He was as sad and as taciturn as the rest and his only disti...
9 Sep 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Lickers I woke up to the sensation of Ben shaking my shoulder. My head was aching. It was the second hour of morning and the family were just preparing to go to the church service and on to work. They each bid me ‘good luck’ and thanked...
9 Sep 2022 4 minute read 3 comments peerynt
[All the images in this post are from moviemeter.nl, used here on Fair Use basis.] It feels great to walk into the auditorium of a movie theatre with no expectations other than perhaps interesting performances by a couple of A-list actors, and being...
