The Geecologist

We

We

Dec 20, 2025 | Fiction | 0 comments

Through the glass walls of the buildings, a windy, feverishly pink, disturbing sunset. I’ve turned my chair so the pink won’t get in my eyes and leafed through these notes. I see: again, I’ve forgotten that I’m not writing all this for myself but for you, unknown...
The Machine Stops

The Machine Stops

Jul 27, 2024 | Fiction, Geekery, Short Stories | 0 comments

“And even the lecturers acquiesced when they found that a lecture on the sea was none the less stimulating when compiled out of other lectures that had already been delivered on the same subject. “Beware of first-hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the most advanced of...
Journey To The End Of The Night

Journey To The End Of The Night

Apr 20, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

At a time when the world is upside down and it’s thought insane to ask why you’re being murdered, it obviously requires no great effort to pass for a lunatic. Of course your act has got to be convincing, but when it comes to keeping out of the big...
Night Boat To Tangier

Night Boat To Tangier

Dec 2, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

Benjamin? Charlie says. He want a black-sand beach. He want to be talking bollocks. He want a circle of swaying dreadlocks all ’round him. He want the girls and the dogs hanging on his every word. He want to be staring all soulful into the moonlight. Ranting his...
The Night

The Night

Oct 27, 2023 | Fiction, Short Stories | 1 comment

You are a child in a small town. You are, to be exact, eight years old, and it is growing late at night. Late for you, accustomed to bedding in at nine or nine-thirty: once in a while perhaps begging Mom or Dad to let you stay up later to hear Sam and Henry on that...