The Geecologist

My Name Is Red

My Name Is Red

Jun 24, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. Although I drew my last breath long ago and my heart has stopped beating, no one, apart from that vile murderer, knows what’s happened to me. As for that wretch, he felt for my pulse and listened for...
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Mar 11, 2023 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Open Arms His face turned to me now, and I could not draw a breath. I thought for a moment that my first impression of him had been correct. He was a ghost and this was the moment he would carry me away with him. My breath was gone, never to return. But he did not...
The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad

Dec 3, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

It was stupid of Icarius to try to drown the daughter of a naiad, however. Water is our element, it is our birthright. Although we are not such good swimmers as our mothers, we do have a way of floating, and we’re well connected among the fish and seabirds. A...
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Nov 19, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

You wake up with the answer to the question that everyone asks. The answer is Yes, and the answer is Just Like Here But Worse. That’s all the insight you’ll ever get. So you might as well go back to sleep. You were born without a heartbeat and kept alive in an...
There Are Little Kingdoms

There Are Little Kingdoms

Oct 19, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

It was deadening winter, one of those feeble afternoons with coal smoke for light, but I found myself in reliably cheerful form. I floated above it all, pleasantly distanced, though the streets were as dumb-witted as always that day, and the talkshops were a babble of...