The Geecologist

Symbols and Signs

Symbols and Signs

Oct 30, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

For the fourth time in as many years, they were confronted with the problem of what birthday present to take to a young man who was incurably deranged in his mind. Desires he had none. Man-made objects were to him either hives of evil, vibrant with a malignant...
There Are Little Kingdoms

There Are Little Kingdoms

Oct 19, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

It was deadening winter, one of those feeble afternoons with coal smoke for light, but I found myself in reliably cheerful form. I floated above it all, pleasantly distanced, though the streets were as dumb-witted as always that day, and the talkshops were a babble of...
Damned If I Do

Damned If I Do

Oct 1, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

The Fix Douglas Langley owned a little sandwich shop at the intersection of Fourteenth and T streets in the District. Beside his shop was a seldom-used alley and above his shop lived a man by the name of Sherman Olney, whom Douglas had seen beaten to near extinction...
The Trees

The Trees

Sep 17, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

Granny C always looked a little sad. And why not? Wheat was her son. Charlene hated the woman nearly as much as she hated Wheat, but never showed it; she was an old woman, and in the South you respect your elders. Her four grandchildren, three years to ten, looked...
The Sellout

The Sellout

Aug 13, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

“White babes don’t do nothing for me. You know that.” “Bullshit, your fucking hard-on woke me up.” “Aversion therapy.” “What’s that?” I balked at telling her about my father locking my head into the tachistoscope and for three hours flashing split-second images of the...
We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies

We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies

Jul 30, 2022 | Fiction

Ama was an oracle. The realization came to my mother late in life, when her monthly bleedings stopped and something else opened inside. Some in our village called it an affliction. They said there was a crack in her mind that left her open to spirits who would consume...