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8 Sep 2022 10 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Ben, ukrainianjewishencounter.org I came around just in time to find myself being dragged into a doorway by two men and then propped up on a bench against a wall. Then a woman came and began wiping my forehead and my bloodied hand with a...
8 Sep 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Though I’d never seen the city in its former state it was obvious that most of it had been razed to the ground. The hills on every side were barren, denuded of trees and structures for miles around. When we reached the border of these hills...
7 Sep 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Our trek, ge.com “As soon as the first warm days of spring arrived, we prepared for our next move. We had a fair supply of food and about sixty able members left to carry it. But even in leaving we had some bitter choices to make. First...
7 Sep 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The following weeks proved to be a happy and recuperative period in Jonathan’s life, by virtue of the pleasant occupation that filled them, reading through nearly all the miscellaneous literature he’d discovered. He forgot about any serious purpo...
6 Sep 2022 5 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
Burning books, todayfoundout.com The world was in terrible disorder at that time. It was the second long year of the epidemic. There was economic collapse, widespread famine and crisis in the government of every nation. But it wasn't jus...
6 Sep 2022 13 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A rara find, mylittlemagicshop.com Afterwards Jonathan was shown to a bare, narrow cell in the back of the temple. It was a guest-room containing only a simple cot, a mat, a chair and a small table with two candles on it, already lit. T...
5 Sep 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jonathan "I, Jonathan Winslow, the most reprobate of sinners, unholy, unclean, renegade do hereby admit by this act of writing, this desecration of the white page, that I am guilty of a capital offence and deserve to be put to death by fire. I he...
5 Sep 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
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 post it now, after all these years may seem odd, but the ability to write a novel and...
