The Geecologist

The Hour Of The Star

The Hour Of The Star

Mar 7, 2020 | Fiction | 0 comments

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the...
Ulysses

Ulysses

Feb 29, 2020 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the...
The Course of Love

The Course of Love

Feb 27, 2020 | Essays, Fiction

Having always imagined that they would have children one day, they decide, four years into their marriage, to stop preventing the possibility. After seven months they get the news beside the bathroom sink, in the form of a faint blue line within a cotton-backed...
By Night In Chile

By Night In Chile

Jan 18, 2020 | Featured, Fiction | 0 comments

Every now and then, Farewell burst into excessively sonorous laughter. At each of these guffaws, I looked at him out of the corner of my eye. He looked like the god Pan, or Bacchus in his den, or some demented Spanish conquistador ensconced in a southern fort. The...
The Overstory

The Overstory

Dec 21, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

The things she catches Doug-firs doing, over the course of these years, fill her with joy. When the lateral roots of two Douglas-firs run into each other underground, they fuse. Through those self-grafted knots, the two trees join their vascular systems together and...
The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch

Dec 7, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time. The writhing loathsomeness of the biological order. Old age, sickness,...