The Geecologist

The Garden of Forking Paths

The Garden of Forking Paths

Apr 1, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

To Victoria Ocampo In his A History of the World War (page 212), Captain Liddell Hart reports that a planned offensive by thirteen British divisions, supported by fourteen hundred artillery pieces, against the German line at Serre-Montauban, scheduled for July 24,...
Exit West

Exit West

Apr 14, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. For many days. His name was Saeed and her name was Nadia and he had a beard, not a full beard, more a...
Slough

Slough

Sep 9, 2017 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for humans now, There isn’t grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death! Come, bombs and blow to smithereens Those air-conditioned, bright canteens, Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,...