The Geecologist

Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City

Jan 27, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

The train shudders and pitches toward Fourteenth Street, stopping twice for breathers in the tunnel. You are reading about Liz Taylor’s new boyfriend when a sooty hand taps your shoulder. You do not have to look up to know you are facing a casualty, one of the...
Pastoralia

Pastoralia

Jan 19, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

This morning is the morning I empty our Human Refuse bags and the trash bags and the bag from the bottom of the sleek metal hole where Janet puts her used feminine items. For this I get an extra sixty a month. Plus it’s always nice to get out of the cave. I knock on...
Eileen

Eileen

Jan 12, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

My mother never packed lunches for me to take to school when I was growing up. I’d sit and stare down at my knees while the other children ate their sandwiches, my stomach empty and rumbling. As soon as I’d get home in the afternoon, I filled my belly with...
The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits

Jan 6, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

My wife didn’t miss the refinements she had been accustomed to, and the day the shipment of furniture and household goods I had ordered to surprise her arrived at the door, all she said was how “lovely” it was. I myself had to figure out where...
50 words – mountains

50 words – mountains

Dec 20, 2017 | 50 words, Fiction, My Lies | 0 comments

Jackson gazes out of the window through clouds, and catches a glimpse of the magnificent Andes dashing past like so many spooked animals. The next fifty days will change her life, eating fellow passengers and melted snow. But for now and with no great ceremony, the...
50 words – love

50 words – love

Dec 9, 2017 | 50 words, Featured, Fiction, My Lies | 0 comments

Once upon a time a heroic washerwoman found a beautiful stableboy and their love soared to heights previously unknown to humankind. Throughout the centuries that followed, word of their perfect love exceeded imagination for what could be. And just as the couple...