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11 Aug 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The car that worked. Stangbangers.com I awoke in Claire’s arms, or, more poetically, her charms. Her eyelids must have opened the same moment mine did, dewy-eyed and happy. We smiled, inches apart, to a new day, having no idea what that might fo...
11 Aug 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The EMP blast, sciencefriday.com Jaime's story continued: “He disappeared on us. We were tailing him as he left this house. We wanted to take him with us. But he stopped his car next to Tilden park and began running. My associates lost him. H...
10 Aug 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Claire, wallhere.com “I don’t consider myself pessimistic” I thought to myself, “yet this degree of happiness does not subsist in any human affairs.” And in retrospect I was right. We spent the next hour tearing into a three-volume set called...
10 Aug 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Samantha restored, therestored.com The next morning was as bright and as splendid as the morning Naomi woke up all better, or the morning Akiko did at the hospital, only now it was fourfold. Scout snuck into Samantha’s room at break of dawn, waki...
9 Aug 2022 13 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Samantha unsplash.com by Zachary Kyra Derksen As Mr. Tanaki began feeling the exhilarating perks of having his brain power increased a hundredfold and his daughter in a similar Elysium, they decided to stay with us for a while. We passed the afte...
9 Aug 2022 13 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Akika quora.com That afternoon I drove Naomi to the hospital to fetch her car. She took her mother home but promised to return and stay the night, to see how Jane and Mary fared and also to spend time with Scout, in whom she now took a deep inter...
8 Aug 2022 14 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Naomi in the greenhouse, pinterest.com. The next morning Scout and I were up before everyone else. We each had a bowl of oatmeal, then straight to the library where I was eager to try out our new reading plan. I abandoned the idea of slowly leve...
8 Aug 2022 13 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jane dressed up. pexels-andrea-picquadio “Maybe you two should just live here with me for a while” I posited. They both gave me a puzzled look at this unexpected invite. “Until I can find you a nice place to live.” I added. “Scout deserves a good...
7 Aug 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jane and Mary. pexels-gary-barnes At the top of the stairs we parted ways. I skipped any reading that night. I just lay in bed, eyes closed, to review the events of the day. It seemed like my real life was becoming just as much enriched and enh...
