The Geecologist

Dream State

Dream State

Jul 19, 2025 | Fiction

The house was cramped and musty and low ceilinged. There was beige carpet from the seventies, bric-a-brac on every windowsill, secondhand furniture that smelled incurably of smoke. Someone had taped a hand-drawn sketch of a mallard to the lintel above the stairs,...
America

America

Dec 28, 2024 | Essays, Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

Minneapolis Aeronautic missionary of the silent majorities, I jump with cat-like tread from one airport to the other. Now it’s the blazing woods of New Hampshire, casting a fleeting reflection in the mirror of New England. Yesterday, it was the steepling gentleness of...
In The Heart of the Heart of the Country

In The Heart of the Heart of the Country

Oct 30, 2021 | Fiction

A PLACE So I have sailed the seas and come… to B…a small town fastened to a field in Indiana. Twice there have been twelve hundred people here to answer to the census. The town is outstandingly neat and shady, and always puts its best side to the highway. On one lawn...
Indian Camp

Indian Camp

Apr 16, 2012 | Fiction | 0 comments

At the lake shore there was another rowboat drawn up. The two Indians stood waiting.

Nick and his father got in the stern…

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Jun 8, 2009 | Fiction | 0 comments

“You know what’s funny,” I say, “the thing I was most worried about when I was down there, in the South Side, driving around and talking into the tape recorder? I was worried that after I was shot near the lake, that the murderer, who really...