The Geecologist

After The Car

After The Car

May 29, 2017 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Science fiction author and essayist Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that civilisation could not survive for ten minutes without the car. Although the car could be improved, it was unlikely to be replaced by anything fundamentally different. Clarke wrote that the world had...
Mockingbird

Mockingbird

Oct 7, 2014 | Fiction | 0 comments

I stretched myself in the chair and yawned. Then I said, “What happened to conversations? Why don’t people talk anymore, Bob?” He looked at me. “Yes,” he said, as though he had been thinking about the same thing himself. “When I was newly made, back in Cleveland,...
Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run

Oct 25, 2012 | Featured, Fiction | 0 comments

“Couldya fill it up with regular?” The man starts to pump it in and Rabbit gets out of the car and goes around to the back and asks, “How far am I from Brewer?” The farmer looks up with a look of curt distrust from listening to the gas gurgle....
Letter to D – A Love Story

Letter to D – A Love Story

Sep 12, 2009 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

You refused to follow the fashion and had your own ideas about what to wear. You refused to let advertising or marketing supply you with needs you didn’t feel. On holidays, we’d stay either ‘with a family’ in Spain, or in modest hotels or...
The Bridge

The Bridge

Dec 20, 2006 | Fiction | 0 comments

“you know,” he said, “if i had my way i wouldn’t let anybody who believed in star signs or the bible or faith healing or anything like that use electric power, or ride in cars and buses and trains and aircraft, or use anything made of plastic....