The Geecologist

J R

J R

Nov 16, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

Sixteen years like living with a God damned invalid sixteen years every time you come in sitting there waiting just like you left him wave his stick at you, plump up his pillow cut a paragraph add a sentence hold his God damned hand little warm milk add a comma slip...
On Writing

On Writing

Mar 16, 2024 | Essays, Non-Fiction

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do — not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad....
The Furious Passage of James Baldwin

The Furious Passage of James Baldwin

Nov 3, 2018 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

He was about ten, and puny for his age, when two Harlem patrolmen stopped him in an empty lot. Smug in their bias, snug in it, they amused themselves with speculation on his ancestry and probably sexual prowess while they frisked him. They him flat on his back....
50 words – love

50 words – love

Dec 9, 2017 | 50 words, Featured, Fiction, My Lies | 0 comments

Once upon a time a heroic washerwoman found a beautiful stableboy and their love soared to heights previously unknown to humankind. Throughout the centuries that followed, word of their perfect love exceeded imagination for what could be. And just as the couple...