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28 Feb 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
22 Feb 2023 7 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
PROLOGUE I wrote this book twenty five years ago in Seattle, where I lived with my wife and child and worked as a self-employed and often unemployed electrician. That I publish it now, after all these years may seem odd, but the ability to write...
17 Feb 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Krisz Rokk
A smooth wind welcomed the new season causing leaves to dance in circles on the streets. She left the house early in the morning and made it to the train station. Spotting her favorite bench, she pulled out a little basket while whispering her dream....
