The Geecologist

The Forester’s Daughter

The Forester’s Daughter

Aug 22, 2026 | Fiction | 0 comments

When he is getting into his car, a stranger who holds his cards close to his chest approaches. ‘I understand you have a dog you’d sell.’ ‘A dog?’ says Deegan. ‘Aye,’ he says, ‘a gun dog. Do you still have him?’ ‘Well, I do.’ Deegan is set back on his heel but he...
Hamnet

Hamnet

May 23, 2026 | Fiction | 0 comments

Agnes’s head is pressed against the smooth flank of the cow as she milks. Joan hears the psht-psht-u-psht of milk jetting into the pail. At the sound of Joan’s cry, the cow shifts and Agnes lifts her cheek and turns to look at her stepmother, a wary expression on her...
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...
Leviathan

Leviathan

Jan 29, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

Underneath his apparent clumsiness, Sachs had a remarkable understanding of women. Not just of Fanny, but of nearly all the women he met, and again and again I was surprised by how naturally they were drawn to him. Growing up with three sisters might have had...
The Course of Love

The Course of Love

Feb 27, 2020 | Essays, Fiction

Having always imagined that they would have children one day, they decide, four years into their marriage, to stop preventing the possibility. After seven months they get the news beside the bathroom sink, in the form of a faint blue line within a cotton-backed...