The Geecologist

Satin Island

Satin Island

Feb 19, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

2.4 The ventilation system. This deserves a book all of its own. It was cavernous and booming. The air-handling unit was housed in the basement with me — a series of grey boxes joined to one another like parts of a mechanical elephant, a sheet-metal supply-duct...
How To Write About Africa

How To Write About Africa

Nov 16, 2019 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Animals, on the other hand, must be treated as well rounded, complex characters. They speak (or grunt while tossing their manes proudly) and have names, ambitions and desires. They also have family values: see how lions teach their children? Elephants are caring, and...
The Buffalo

The Buffalo

Oct 19, 2019 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

But it was spring. Even the lion licked the lioness’s smooth forehead. Both animals blond. The woman averted her eyes from the cage, where the hot smell alone recalled the carnage she’d come looking for at the Zoological Gardens. Then the lion paced calmly, mane...
Amaryllis Night And Day

Amaryllis Night And Day

Jul 28, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

I’ve already gone into our conversation about my bird-women. That took place a few months after I asked her to move in with me and she said no. As I think of it now I know we’d have driven each other crazy but at the time her refusal shook me and I had to...
The Elephant’s Journey

The Elephant’s Journey

Jul 25, 2015 | Fiction | 0 comments

He dispatched the aide-de-camp to take his orders to the head of the convoy, orders that could be summarized in three almost synonymous words, speed, alacrity, haste, allowing, of course, for the delaying effects of the snow that had begun to fall more thickly now,...