The Geecologist

Hamnet

Hamnet

Oct 17, 2026 | Fiction | 0 comments

When Eliza hears these claims, made in her presence by people in the street, by neighbours, by those to whom she sells gloves, she doesn’t pretend not to have heard. She stops in her tracks. She holds the eye of the gossip in question (she has an unnerving stare: this...
A House For Mr Biswas

A House For Mr Biswas

Jun 29, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

Every night he bolted himself in his room. As soon as he was still he felt the stillness around him and he had to make movements to destroy the stillness, to challenge the alertness of the room and the objects in it. He was rocking hard on the creaking board one night...
Fup

Fup

May 19, 2010 | Fiction | 0 comments

The differences in temperament carried over into style. Tiny enjoyed the open, linear purity of checkers. Grandaddy favored games with hole cards, where your strength was in your secrets and you flew into the eye of chaos riding your ghost. Tiny started work at dawn....