The Geecologist

Yellow Dog

Yellow Dog

Sep 12, 2008 | Fiction | 0 comments

Clint said, ‘The big news climatewise, they’re saying, is the Ice Age. Which is coming up. After uh, ten thousand years of decent weather, muck out the igloo, boys, and hunker down for ninety millennia of frostbite.’ ‘…Then maybe global...
Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer

Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer

Sep 8, 2008 | Fiction | 0 comments

When I turned on the lights the place came out of the darkness like an animal caught in the headlamps of a car. All the plants whose names I’d forgotten reproached me silently; the Russian vine looked moribund. ‘Sorry,’ I said. I filled a jug and...
Forty Stories

Forty Stories

Aug 18, 2008 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Conversations with Goethe The English, Goethe said in parting, are the shining brown varnish on the sad chiffonier of civilization. Lieutenant Whitby blushed most noticeably.
Marcovaldo

Marcovaldo

Aug 4, 2008 | Fiction | 2 comments

The heavy man pointed the tip of his cane towards the rows of lights that were coming on, down below. “In the evening,” he said, “with this stick I take my walk in the city. I choose a street, a row of lamps, and I follow it, like this… I stop...
Forty Stories

Forty Stories

Jul 20, 2008 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

The Educational Experience What a wonderful time you’ll have, we told them, when the experience is over, done, completed. You will all, we told them, be more beautiful than you are now, and more employable too. You will have a grasp of the total situation; the...