The Geecologist

The Happy Prince

The Happy Prince

Sep 11, 2021 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt. He was very much admired indeed. “He is as beautiful...
Lanny

Lanny

Sep 26, 2020 | Fiction | 0 comments

At that time I was into finding and cleaning the skeletons of dead things. Mostly birds. I would pull them apart, coat them in gold leaf, reassemble them wrongly and suspend them from wire frames. Little mobiles of badly made birds. I’d done a dozen or so. The gallery...
The Sea, The Sea

The Sea, The Sea

Apr 18, 2020 | Fiction | 0 comments

After lunch I cut off a length of my rope and tied it onto the iron banister at the tower steps, and now it trails handily into the sea, moving darkened in the waves. I have knotted the seaward end for easier grasp. I have had less success with the ‘cliff’ for the...
One Hundred Years Of Solitude

One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Dec 16, 2016 | Fiction | 0 comments

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran...