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8 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.02
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 $0.02
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...
6 Mar 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Diomedes $0.01
The sheik look The march of human progress had been for the most part a steady, if not stately, thing up to this point. Though the earth had been groaning ever more plaintively under its burden of people, and local wars and Eco-disasters came and...
5 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.04
It's high time, I think, to look back a few more years and relate what I have been putting off in this narrative, that is, a brief history of the fall, and the first causes that brought on our revolution. It was a horrible time...
5 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.05
One task of my group was to lay out three continuous white lines that marked the borders and the center of our new road. It was an important job, guiding the crews that followed behind, and I worked closely with the chief engineer to...
4 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.08
Highway repair What most engaged me was the coming announcement. A great council had been gathered in the east that winter to map out a new course for the faithful and draw up an agenda for the next decade. It’d taken half a year to se...
4 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.05
Those black marks that one day began appearing on people’s skin, the first symptom of the plague, took a far greater toll on those they spared than on those they killed. They blackened our minds and left us crazed victims of some divin...
3 Mar 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Diomedes $0.03
My new crew The day was just dawning and a cool mist revived me just enough to open my eyes. The streets were deserted. I could see in the faint light that these men were in rags and guessed that they must be "lickers". The...
3 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.00
Hiram waiting for my return CHAPTER FOUR I woke up to the sensation of Ben shaking my shoulder. My head was aching. It was the second hour of morning and the family were just preparing to go to the church service and on to work. They...
2 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.01
I realized that all pretense was vain with this man who freely offered to me what I had let slip to him. I told him, in a halting voice, that I was not what I seemed, that I had come from far away and had little time. He was curious to...
