The Whitening

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Postscript

30 Sep 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Epilogue After a ten day journey along the coast the caravan under Jonathan’s care reached their beloved town.  They put themselves completely under his guidance, a post, he told them, that he would only assume for a short while, until their town w...

Freedom

29 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

      The waterfront was only a few blocks away with the breeze blowing off the water protecting it from the fire.  Many of the people in the streets were now running in that direction.  Jonathan's group just followed the torrent of bodies.  When th...

The Escape

29 Sep 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

       It was now approaching midnight.  The city was asleep and it was time to act.  The men lit their torches and everyone crowded to the very back of the room, while Jonathan set his charge.  He wedged it under the door, lit it, and ran as fast a...

Jail

28 Sep 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

       Jonathan was tackled from behind and shoved down to the floor.  He hit hard and found himself lying right next to the fallen Bishop, who was unconscious and bleeding from the temple.  Jonathan's arms were then pinned behind his back and he wa...

Violence

28 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

       The next day they pushed hard to reach their destination by nightfall.  Jonathan even carried the girl on his back quite a ways, talking to her and laughing to break the tedium.  When they arrived at nightfall everyone gathered excitedly in t...

Left Behind

27 Sep 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  The Widow and Child It was almost dark when he left this inspection and began trudging back through town to his burro.  He was walking along deep in thought, immersed in the problems of transporting large loads over pathless hills.  Whether it was...

Changes

26 Sep 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

   The deserted town         As Jonathan decided that this would be another holiday, he spent a portion of it cooking and serving them meals and trying to entertain them in between.  They weren’t much used to leisure and had no idle pastimes, so he...

Couples

26 Sep 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

    Simon and Eve         Along the way he kicked over all the rocks he’d set up to mark the path.  From the last hilltop he looked back upon the sleepy town and knew that the next sunrise would bring them a day of mourning for the loss of the only...

A passage

26 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

       That day they veered south towards the highway.  The next point on Jonathan’s list was adjacent to the road.  It’d been a larger town along the way which he knew would be demolished by now.  But he was hoping to see its remnants and two tall...

Books and Guns

25 Sep 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

      Robinson Crusoe       They continued their trip west at a quick pace, stopping each night at one of the stations along the way.  It was now mid-winter and they heard reports of snow blocking the highway further west.  So they lingered in the s...