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27 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I resume my unfinished novel, after a long intermission caused by a string of unforeseeable sublunary vicissitudes. We spent the next month at Juliet’s bedside, now wheeled into our laboratory, designing an embryonic sac that could gestate a human...
1 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I forced myself that next dinner to ask Ted about the progress of his stun gun experiments on the robotic parts we had retrieved and reactivated, much to his surprise. He had been working with Sheila and Hanna daily on this project as if it were t...
1 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I suppose you can call me an equitable and peace loving man. I never wanted to return harm with more harm. I never desired a fight. My own history shows that when the troubles began I chose flight over fight, hiding in the woods for so many years,...
30 Sep 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Over the following weeks we continued our grim talks on how to annihilate our enemy. It was never a pleasant conversation and everyday seemed even more depressing and hopeless as we realized their insurmountable advantages. I mentioned that in any...
29 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In a few months time every member of our tribe, even the children over three, had our bands on our heads, their filaments slowly lengthening and weaving through our minds, connecting to thousands more synapses everyday. It gave each of us a fresh...
29 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Ted and I worked as a team each day in light construction work, modifying what we had to suit our needs, moving furniture around and taking out a few walls. Then we became scroungers, driving through the neighboring communities for all the items w...
24 Jun 2023 5 minute read 3 comments Diomedes
We did just that. Ted and Sarah stayed up with me late into the night. This was because each rescue plan we considered had many more chances of a disastrous ending than success. The element of surprise was out since Ted and his party had escaped a...
20 Jun 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Pluton
/ Translation, may be inaccurate. / Among the many economic problems, the pension is one of the most importa...
16 Jun 2023 5 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Juliet After the six day trip across the Pacific we found the lab just as we’d left it and set to work. We had all the components to make four more Dora-like beings and the robots were already there, all female of course and lovely. While Ted and...
15 Jun 2023 2 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
The next morning we sped away, hours before our late night poker players could possibly wake up. Once again this surreptitious departure took a toll on me. It seemed like this was becoming a theme in my life, from my first flight into the woods wi...
