The Geecologist

There Are Little Kingdoms

There Are Little Kingdoms

Oct 19, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

It was deadening winter, one of those feeble afternoons with coal smoke for light, but I found myself in reliably cheerful form. I floated above it all, pleasantly distanced, though the streets were as dumb-witted as always that day, and the talkshops were a babble of...
The Garden of Forking Paths

The Garden of Forking Paths

Apr 1, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

To Victoria Ocampo In his A History of the World War (page 212), Captain Liddell Hart reports that a planned offensive by thirteen British divisions, supported by fourteen hundred artillery pieces, against the German line at Serre-Montauban, scheduled for July 24,...
Alias Grace

Alias Grace

May 26, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

My mother and Aunt Pauline were a dead clergyman’s daughters – a Methodist, he was – and it was said their father had done something unexpected with the church money, and after that could not get a position; and when he died they were penniless, and were turned out to...