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6 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A blind person’s existence must be a confined thing, like living at the bottom of the ocean in an old fashioned diving suit and every movement a slow and ridiculous motion, or like one constantly living in a medieval suit of armor, encumbered and...
6 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The next morning I awoke to the most curious sight. She had risen before me, entered the bathroom, bright with the morning light. Through the open door I saw her standing motionless in front of the mirror, the band off, staring at her pretty face,...
5 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
That morning as we headed west, The bright sunlight shining in, a full tank of gas and the windows rolled down, Amira had a large smile upon her face, in the best of moods. I thought this might be a good hour to ask her a few questions. Until answ...
4 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Pandora It was a crisp, clear summer morning and as we emerged from the alley onto the avenue she said: I can feel the sun on my face. I usually don’t come out in the daylight.” “Let’s find some food and then we’ll take a drive and talk. The band...
3 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We were on the outskirts of the city when this conversation occurred. I determined right then that I wasn’t going to enter this grid. I had guns with me but they outnumbered me by far. They might tie me to a bed and put the goggles on my head and...
2 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was just as I was lying down in the large, poster bed of some vanished millionaire that my band, my collar, came to life again. I think Dora could sense this and took it as an opportune moment to beguile me. “Sam, are you about to sleep for the...
2 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
She fell silent. I was full of thoughts. I walked slowly through this mall, gazing into the storefronts as if shopping, but I needed none of it. You might think that my life in the woods alone, and with my brother the three years before that was a...
1 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I came across my first clue in the first city I entered heading south, the city of Barrie. There, in an otherwise empty mall I found a corpse, the body of an older man recently dead, slumped over on a bench in the concourse. I’m no mortician but h...
30 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This is the first page of a novel I am just beginning to compose. It's about the journey of a free man in the near future, 2030, after AI has wiped out nearly all of mankind, not through violence but persuasion, as almost everyone wears wrap around...
10 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Epilogue After a ten day journey along the coast, the caravan under Jonathan’s care reached their beloved town. They put themselves completely under his guidance, a post, he told them, that he would only assume for a short while, until their to...
