The Geecologist

My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend

Feb 16, 2019 | Featured, Fiction | 0 comments

On December 31st of 1958 Lila had her first episode of dissolving margins. The term isn’t mine, she always used it. She said that on those occasions the outlines of people and things suddenly dissolved, disappeared. That night, on the terrace where we were celebrating...
The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

Feb 9, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

The car stopped, started, stopped again. Below the window I watched the crowns of people’s heads passing beneath new straw hats not yet unbleached. There were women in the car now, with market baskets, and men in work-clothes were beginning to outnumber the...
Homegoing

Homegoing

Feb 2, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

The men continued sipping the wine in silence for a while. In the trees, the birds were calling each other to sleep. A spider crawled over James’s bare foot, and he thought of the Anansi stories his mother used to tell him, and still told his younger brothers and...
Chess

Chess

Jan 19, 2019 | Featured, Fiction | 0 comments

Within six months Mirko had mastered all the technical mysteries of chess, although with one curious reservation, which was frequently observed and mocked in chess-playing circles later. For Czentovic never managed to play a single game of chess from memory – or...
My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend

Jan 12, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

Days passed. I looked at my e-mail, at my regular mail, but not with any hope. I often wrote to her, and she almost never responded: this was her habit. She preferred the telephone or long nights of talk when I went to Naples. I opened my drawers, the metal boxes...
Dust of Snow

Dust of Snow

Jan 5, 2019 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. And now you could read... Beautiful Snow The Book Thief The Overstory Station Eleven Homesick for Another World The Happy...