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12 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.07
The wine experiment failed miserably, so I scaled that back to one glass with dinner. There’s nothing pleasant or instructive in seeing a four year old drunk, only babble. My short treks in the woods with Tom were fruitful as he improved in settin...
8 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.02
The campus When we finally headed west a month had passed since finding Beth. Her eyes were now sparkly clear and so was her vision. She was in shoes again. Only an ankle brace and a slight limp remained of her wound. The delay to our trip wasn’t...
6 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.10
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 $0.02
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 $0.02
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 $0.03
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 $0.02
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 $0.05
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 $0.01
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 $0.08
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...
