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...
Sapiens

Sapiens

Jun 24, 2017 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

We can connect a limited number of sounds and signs to produce an infinite number of sentences, each with a distinct meaning. We can thereby ingest, store and communicate a prodigious amount of information about the surrounding world. A green monkey can yell to its...
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

Jul 10, 2009 | Fiction | 0 comments

‘Show me a crux and I’ll show you the cracks,’ said the tightly furled man. ‘You’re not talking to squares now, darling. Don’t try to slide by on crossword puzzles and ninety-nine-year leases. The blank spaces are bigger than...
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

Jun 24, 2009 | Fiction | 0 comments

Jachin-Boaz traded in maps. He bought and sold maps, and some, of certain kinds for special uses, he made or had others make for him. That had been his father’s trade, and the walls of the shop that had been his father’s were hung with glazed blue oceans,...