Truth & Lies Archives - The Geecologist

The Humans

Humans are one of the few intelligent beings in the galaxy who haven’t quite solved the problem of...

There were a number of possible replacements for the Admiral – a dozen or so crew members...

‘Hello, I’m in a rush,’ her lawyer began, as he often did, ‘but there’s some news I wanted you to...

White Snail.- (Silence.) (A young lady with a lace parasol comes along counting her steps. Upon...

PORTRAIT A child draws the outline of a body.She draws what she can, but it is white all...

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one...

‘Every persisting marriage is based on fear,’ said Peregrine. Fear is fundamental, you dig down in...

At that time I was into finding and cleaning the skeletons of dead things. Mostly birds. I would...

‘There are a few things we need to eliminate,’ the doctor said. ‘A brain tumour is the first of...

I wanted to follow the rain on its meanderings about our land to rejoin the sea, to break out of...

A full short story by Ottessa Moshfegh called Nothing Ever Happens Here

I am wary of the dangers of fetishizing dialect and archaism – all that mollocking and sukebinding...