The Geecologist

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

Mar 30, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

The factory is a large, barn-like structure that houses bolts of fabric, cutting tables, massive sewing machines, and furnaces that provide the steam for pressing. The total effect is rather surreal, especially when one sees Les Africains moving about attending to...
In Patagonia

In Patagonia

May 25, 2019 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

I left the Rio Negro and went on south to Port Madryn. A hundred and fifty-three Welsh colonists landed here off the brig Mimosa in 1865. They were poor people in search of a New Wales, refugees from cramped coal-mining valleys, from a failed independence movement,...
Scoop

Scoop

Apr 21, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

That evening, sometime after the advertised hour, Mr. Salter alighted at Boot Magna Halt. An hour earlier, at Taunton, he had left the express, and changed into a train such as he did not know existed outside the imagination of his Balkan correspondents; a single...