The Geecologist

The Heart In Winter

The Heart In Winter

Jun 14, 2025 | Fiction | 0 comments

On Wyoming Street in the evening a patent Irish stumbled by, some crazy old meathead in a motley of rags and filthy buck-skin, wild tufts of hair sticking out the ears, the eyes burning now like hot stars, now clamped shut in a kind of ecstasy, and he lurched and...
A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

Feb 24, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

“Where are you going now?” “Mr. Mancuso and his aunt, they gonna pick me up in a few minutes. We going down by Fazzio’s to bowl.” “What?” Ignatius screamed. “Is that true?” “I’ll be in early. I told Mr. Mancuso I can’t stay out late. And his aunt’s a grammaw, so I...
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...
Homesick For Another World

Homesick For Another World

May 6, 2017 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Bettering Myself “Dear Principal Kishka,” I wrote. “Thank you for letting me teach at your school. Please throw away the sleeping bag in the cardboard box in the back of my classroom. I have to resign for personal reasons. Just so you know, I’ve been fudging the state...
Make your soul grow

Make your soul grow

Jan 15, 2015 | Featured, Non-Fiction

Back in 2006, a group of students at Xavier High School in New York City (one of whom, “JT,” submitted this letter) were given an assignment by their English teacher, Ms. Lockwood, that was to test their persuasive writing skills: they were asked to write...