The Geecologist

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.
Pale Fire

Pale Fire

Dec 22, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

Teach. Examine literary masterpieces with brilliant and charming young people. A hobby he could now freely indulge. ‘And, of course, I don’t know,’ she mumbled looking away, ‘I don’t know but perhaps if you’d have nothing against it, I might...
Attrib. And Other Stories

Attrib. And Other Stories

Dec 15, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Concision A single Finnish word can describe the blast of heat that occurs when water is poured on a sauna’s brazier. Also, one Bantu verb sums up the act of discarding one’s clothes in order to dance, while a Pascuense word means ‘the swelling of...
Delta of Venus

Delta of Venus

Dec 8, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger,...
The Second Bakery Attack

The Second Bakery Attack

Dec 1, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

I’m still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack. But then, it might not have been a question of right and wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the...