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31 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In the morning when the youths awoke, they stepped out of their tents to find Jonathan sitting over the hole and going through a large stack of books, heaped up beside the open coffin. Simon was the first to approach, and as he did Jona...
31 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
His most valuable deposit, he remembered, was the first one he made behind his old home near White Oaks at the start of the revolution. But he knew that area had been razed and the landscape so changed that he’d never be able to find it...
30 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
"They're running out of paint." It didn’t take but a second for Jonathan to realize the profound implications of this statement. He wouldn’t let go of his friend's shoulder until he heard the full details of this crisis. It w...
29 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The news of this pilgrimage preceded them by about a month, through the supply ship returning from their district. Because of this forewarning they were honorably received. The Bishop of the city of ten thousand souls was a good friend...
28 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
silver ornament It wasn’t long after these discoveries that he began his school of bookmaking. At one end of the long cabin he made a slanted table with tall stools, a scriptorium where three could sit together and copy out the contents...
27 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
They arrived on the evening of the second day to the warm welcome of the four that had stayed behind. The old priest was lodged in the new cabin and the next morning was given a grand tour of the site, with Jonathan at his side and the...
27 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk
She was lying on her back breathing heavily when a truck passed by. The driver didn’t see her so he continued his journey. Amid the ever-present breeze of diesel fuel she could finally straighten up to continue her travel. Blood was pouring down from...
26 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
After reciting a long list of instructions to the rest of his disciples, enough to occupy them for weeks, Jonathan collected his burros, called Mary and Simon, and set out at a leisurely pace over the hills. The three of them walked clo...
25 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
At this point Jonathan paused in writing his narrative. He noticed that the last few lines were lighter than the others and realized with a start that his pen was running out of ink. "Oh what a fool I am," he said to himself l...
25 Mar 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was at this unlucky juncture that I rode up with my cavalry force, in my path around the lakes. The instant I arrived it came into our Marshall's head to try a cavalry assault before the other army arrived, so that all the glory of a...
