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17 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.02
Early next morning he was roused out of a dreamless sleep by the bells that called the temple priests to breakfast. As this day had been declared a day of celebration, there would be no morning service. The prayers would be integrated...
16 Mar 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.04
We came up to this dark pillar running and found to our horror that it was a man. He was almost naked, wearing only a thin robe that was richly ornamented in the old style. On his head sat the tall headgear of a bishop. He was facing...
15 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.02
The next morning we woke up to a double calamity. Our guide had slipped away in the night, and the wind-blown snow had covered up all trace of the way he went. The wind lashed snow in our faces. We could barely see a few yards ahead. ...
14 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.01
It would have been inappropriate, even disrespectful, to further question the visitor along such lines. Yet the main question still remained unanswered and bred a host of doubts in some of those present. Why did he come to such a small...
13 Mar 2023 9 minute read 1 comment Diomedes $0.03
The body and even the mind of the old priest were now growing feeble. The young and ambitious priests under him intrigued and maneuvered against each other to catch the power that would soon slip from his hands. But they had somehow po...
12 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.00
Again he reached the ruined lighthouse and then the view of the town far ahead. It was really a discreditable, little place. He wondered why it had been allowed to exist at all, why the people hadn’t been shipped off to a regular city...
11 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.04
It was a calm mid-afternoon when Jonathan set down his pen. He was a little surprised, now that he thought about it, that the pen was still working. It was the only one he had. He tried to take it apart to find out how much ink was le...
10 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.01
As the plague still took a large, weekly toll, our city kept pulling in its boundaries. Many times whole acres of glasshouse facilities had to be piece-by-piece relocated. The areas given up were burned and then razed to the ground so...
10 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.00
Cicero From now on I was ignorant of what was happening to the rest of the world. But I guess it followed pretty much the events occurring in Oakland. When I began to wander the world a decade later, I could see that the outco...
9 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.02
The world remained entirely focused on the congress and watched it with increasing hope, with day after day of remarkable progress. On the seventh day, to commemorate the miracle of the first gathering, a world holiday was declared and...
