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6 Mar 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
2 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
CHAPTER THREE By our campfire that night we decided that there were three questions we had to answer; where this highway to the north led, what the squads of men were doing upon it, and what cities or towns lay further up the coast, thre...
1 Mar 2023 9 minute read 3 comments Diomedes
One morning, as we were breaking camp at the river's edge, there came out of nowhere a young man dressed in furs, wearing a fur cap and carrying a rifle on each shoulder. He asked if he could join us. We gathered round him and asked wh...
