The Geecologist

The Sea

The Sea

Nov 9, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

Claire was waiting by the car, shoulders hunched, using the sleeves of her coat for a muff. ‘You should have asked me for the key,’ I said. ‘Did you think I wouldn’t give it to you?’ On the way home she insisted on taking the wheel, despite my vigorous resistance. It...
The Aerodrome

The Aerodrome

Dec 31, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

“Mother you held me on your knee. Mother you worked for me. Mother, you taught me to toddle. Mother, you fed me at your dear old breast.” His voice died away to a whisper and in the ensuing silence I looked round the tent at the dim, grave faces of the...
The Course of Love

The Course of Love

Feb 27, 2020 | Essays, Fiction

Having always imagined that they would have children one day, they decide, four years into their marriage, to stop preventing the possibility. After seven months they get the news beside the bathroom sink, in the form of a faint blue line within a cotton-backed...
4 3 2 1

4 3 2 1

Aug 18, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

His mother continued: From the look in your eyes, Archie, I gather you’ve forgotten about Amy, but back when you were three and four, you had quite a crush on her. Once, when we all went to the Schneidermans’ apartment for a late-afternoon Sunday dinner,...
Ulysses

Ulysses

Jan 1, 2013 | Featured, Fiction | 0 comments

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant’s heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living Mother.