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2 Feb 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The old man sitting across from us was a puzzle too, his survival, his serenity a thing to admire. Since we’d done most of the talking we asked him politely if he would care to share some of his own history with us, Sarah and me, and he did, not h...
31 Jan 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We drove north through the state of Washington, no longer a state, just a name on a map that had no relevance, then east on highway ninety, the route I came to the west coast eight years earlier, call me sentimental. But we proceeded at a snails p...
28 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Then again, she was a beguiling creature, two women in one. I thought about it late into the night, alone in a room with a bed I had set up for just that purpose, meditation. It led me to realize that our present little society, with the demograph...
26 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Strange days Many strange things happened in the following days, Ida attending her own funeral, all of us calling Juliet by her name when it was Ida inside partially controlling her. She took the reins of this control slowly, even meekly, one migh...
25 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We had one potential candidate. One of our women in her early twenties, Ida, had given birth recently to a healthy female babe but had suffered extreme bleeding in the delivery. Abdominal pains continued days after the birth and we neither had the...
23 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We never told the rest of our group about Sarah’s aberration and her three week separation from us. It was easy because they never asked. We told them the details of our itinerary and the rather dull findings as if we’d all been together the whole...
22 Jan 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Elizabeth The only person who wasn’t enjoying serene happiness was Sarah. She had not only just been through a traumatic life and death situation, she had to admit to a huge mistake on her part and the change of heart and ways that it decreed. Thi...
21 Jan 2024 2 minute read 0 comments HavokWAR
Chapter 6 consciousness and existence all but depleated have converged, the symphony of personas navigated the tapestry of human consciousness—a labyrinth of memories, hopes, and dreams interwoven with...
19 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We arrived back in Phoenix on the second day. We could have pulled in the night before but we had a delicate issue to resolve with Sarah and wanted many hours for talks. In fact we stayed up half the night discussing what arguments would best wi...
17 Jan 2024 3 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Crawling out of the slime. Devonian era, our precursor. It was a mistake that almost erased the human race and the few of us left had but one mission in life, to correct it, or else lead lives hiding in the shadows without any purpose except survi...
