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15 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
8 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This was a rather strange thought from one so deep under the earth. But we didn’t pause to ponder the matter. The Secretary quickly moved on to the easel in the bright illumination of the camera lights, and, pinching the corner of the...
7 Mar 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
The catalyst in this strange formula was the plague. When it suddenly broke out the whole might of our medical industry was rallied against it, and in the first few months there was some hope of a vaccine. But the swiftness with which...
