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2 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.03
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 $0.00
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...
28 Feb 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.02
By early summer we settled in the recess of a river valley on the eastern slope. There was a fine meadow and steep wooded hills all around. There were fish in the river and in a small lake nearby. The hardships of the journey and the...
27 Feb 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.01
"That was one happy period in my life," he thought, "when I learned to live comfortably in the wilderness." He mused upon it a little more and the thought struck him that this would be a painless way to commence his history, by simply p...
27 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.01
CHAPTER TWO The following weeks proved to be a happy and recuperative period in Jonathan's life, by virtue of the pleasant occupation that filled them, of reading through nearly all the miscellaneous literature he had discovered. He for...
26 Feb 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.02
He sat there doting on this project a long time. He was all alone, in the middle of nowhere and he knew it. He began reminiscing on a night some twenty-five years past when he was a young man at the university. It was another night of...
25 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.04
Western Australia It was in the morning as he was gathering up his bedroll that he noticed the hinges beneath him. In a moment he uncovered a latch and a cloud of dust flew up in his face as he disturbed the air of the cellar. It settled...
25 Feb 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.01
The oak tree The day was still cool as Jonathan Winslow set out over the hills in a north-easterly direction. He decided not to follow the coast the way he had come. He worried that the townspeople might follow him a little ways and...
24 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.02
Jonathan was not slow in gleaning that his plans were now dashed into nothing. He realized that his stature in this dusty town was too elevated to be impeached. "If only I hadn’t brought my staff," he thought. But then he tried agai...
23 Feb 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes $0.01
Sure enough, within an hour of reaching the coast and heading south he discerned a campfire and a cottage ahead. It was a wooden shack. An old, bearded fisherman and his quiet, middle-aged, ministering son sat on a log in front of it...
