The Geecologist

Dr. No

Dr. No

Dec 16, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

I recall that I am extremely forgetful. I believe I am. I think I know that I am forgetful. Though I remember having forgotten, I cannot recall what it was that I forgot or what forgetting feels like. When I was a kid, my mother tried to convince me that I was...
The Golden Eternity

The Golden Eternity

Jul 27, 2019 | Letters, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

I have lots of things to share now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is...
Mockingbird

Mockingbird

Oct 7, 2014 | Fiction | 0 comments

I stretched myself in the chair and yawned. Then I said, “What happened to conversations? Why don’t people talk anymore, Bob?” He looked at me. “Yes,” he said, as though he had been thinking about the same thing himself. “When I was newly made, back in Cleveland,...
The History of Mr Polly

The History of Mr Polly

Feb 8, 2010 | Fiction | 0 comments

The essential thing of those fifteen long years of shopkeeping is Mr Polly, well athwart the counter of his rather ill-lit shop, lost in a book, or rousing himself with a sigh to attend to business. And meanwhile he got little exercise; indigestion grew with him until...