The Geecologist

Dream State

Dream State

Jul 19, 2025 | Fiction

The house was cramped and musty and low ceilinged. There was beige carpet from the seventies, bric-a-brac on every windowsill, secondhand furniture that smelled incurably of smoke. Someone had taped a hand-drawn sketch of a mallard to the lintel above the stairs,...
In The Heart of the Heart of the Country

In The Heart of the Heart of the Country

Feb 20, 2021 | Featured, Fiction | 0 comments

Mrs Mean My house has porches fore and aft and holds a corner. I spy with care and patience on my neighbors but I seldom speak. They watch me too, of course, and so I count our evils even, though I guard my conscience with a claim to scientific coldness they cannot...
Brown

Brown

Jan 31, 2010 | Fiction | 0 comments

Of course, I did spare a thought for a little boy I’d seen earlier that day. He was kneeling on the other side of the street, sobbing away to himself. On the ground in front of him, a small white dog was lying dead. But I knew he’d soon get over it. After...