The Geecologist

Sisters

Sisters

Jul 22, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

The house burbles around us. The water chokes out of the tap. She doesn’t catch our eyes. She washes and then passes things to me and I dry them and then give them to September to put in the cupboard. I want to tell Mum how we’re sorry, really sorry, about what...
Arabian Sands

Arabian Sands

Oct 23, 2021 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

I arrived back in Salala on 16 October 1946. I planned to cross the Empty Quarter from Mughshin to the Trucial Coast, and to return to Salala across the gravel steppes at the back of Oman, but I realized that if a hint of my plans reached the Wali he would forbid the...