The Geecologist

Attrib. And Other Stories

Attrib. And Other Stories

Dec 15, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Concision A single Finnish word can describe the blast of heat that occurs when water is poured on a sauna’s brazier. Also, one Bantu verb sums up the act of discarding one’s clothes in order to dance, while a Pascuense word means ‘the swelling of...
Delta of Venus

Delta of Venus

Dec 8, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger,...
The Furious Passage of James Baldwin

The Furious Passage of James Baldwin

Nov 3, 2018 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

He was about ten, and puny for his age, when two Harlem patrolmen stopped him in an empty lot. Smug in their bias, snug in it, they amused themselves with speculation on his ancestry and probably sexual prowess while they frisked him. They him flat on his back....
Amaryllis Night And Day

Amaryllis Night And Day

Jul 28, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

I’ve already gone into our conversation about my bird-women. That took place a few months after I asked her to move in with me and she said no. As I think of it now I know we’d have driven each other crazy but at the time her refusal shook me and I had to...
4 3 2 1

4 3 2 1

Jul 18, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

On the other hand, he did have his inspired moments, inexplicable jags of rambunctiousness when something in him was temporarily set free and he turned into a joking, daredevil prankster, as, for example, the night when he showed off for her in the kitchen of her...