The Geecologist

Journey To The End Of The Night

Journey To The End Of The Night

Sep 14, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

While we kept Robinson’s eyes bandaged, he told me about his beginnings in life. When he was eleven, his parents had apprenticed him to a high-class shoemaker. One day he delivered a pair of shoes to a lady customer, and she invited him to share a pleasure which...
Go, Went, Gone

Go, Went, Gone

Sep 7, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

Before Richard moved to the outskirts with his wife, they’d lived in an apartment, a mere two hundred yards as the crow flies from West Berlin. And they lived there almost as peacefully as they later lived in the countryside. The Wall had turned their street into a...
The Machine Stops

The Machine Stops

Aug 31, 2024 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

They were not fighting now. Only the whispers remained, and the little whimpering groans. They were dying by hundreds out in the dark. She burst into tears. Tears answered her. They wept for humanity, those two, not for themselves. They could not bear that this should...
The Asra

The Asra

Aug 17, 2024 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

Every day so lovely, shining,up and down, the Sultan’s daughterwalked at evening by the water,where the white fountain splashes. Every day the young slave stoodby the water, in the evening,where the white fountain splashes,each day growing pale and paler. Then the...
Journey To The End Of The Night

Journey To The End Of The Night

Aug 10, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

The sky in Rancy is the same as in Detroit, a smoky soup that bathes the plain all the way to Levallois. Cast-off buildings bogged down in black muck. From a distance the chimneys, big ones and little ones, look like the fat stakes that rise out of the muck by the...
The Machine Stops

The Machine Stops

Jul 27, 2024 | Fiction, Geekery, Short Stories | 0 comments

“And even the lecturers acquiesced when they found that a lecture on the sea was none the less stimulating when compiled out of other lectures that had already been delivered on the same subject. “Beware of first-hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the most advanced of...