The Geecologist

Damned If I Do

Damned If I Do

Feb 4, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

The Appropriation of Cultures “What in the world do you need a truck for?” Sarah asked. She stepped over to the counter and poured herself another cup of coffee, then sat back down at the table with Daniel. “I’m not buying the truck. Well, I am buying a truck, but...
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...
My Year of Rest and Relaxation

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Aug 17, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

“Can I have another Xanax?” Reva asked. “I can’t spare another, Reva. Sorry.” She was quiet for a while. The air got tense. “The only thing I can think to do to make Ken pay for the way he’s jerked me around is to keep it. But I won’t. Anyway, thanks for listening.”...
Chess

Chess

Jan 19, 2019 | Featured, Fiction | 0 comments

Within six months Mirko had mastered all the technical mysteries of chess, although with one curious reservation, which was frequently observed and mocked in chess-playing circles later. For Czentovic never managed to play a single game of chess from memory – or...
The Antidote to the Malady of Materialism

The Antidote to the Malady of Materialism

Jan 5, 2018 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

It is this mass of unclean world that we have superimposed on the clean world that we cannot bear. When I looked back, out of the clearness of the open evening, at this Littlehampton dark and amorphous like a bad eruption on the edge of the land, I was so sick I felt...