Short Stories Archives - The Geecologist

The Kingdom That Failed

Just behind the kingdom that failed ran a nice little river. It was a clear, lovely stream, and...

There is a Madonna at the bottom of the crystalline waters off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy,...

The midtown hotel restaurant was almost empty at eleven-thirty in the morning. Three waiters were...

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

But it was spring. Even the lion licked the lioness’s smooth forehead. Both animals blond. The...

And once she lay over against me late in the night and she started talking, her breath in my ear,...

On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross...

A Dark and Winding RoadAround nine o’clock, I pulled my sleeping bag out and unrolled it on the...

Concision A single Finnish word can describe the blast of heat that occurs when water is poured on...

Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit,...

I’m still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack. But...

I live in a well. I live like smoke in the well. Like vapor in a stone throat. I don’t move. I...