The Geecologist

Shy

Shy

Oct 7, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

…barged into the science wing, threw his bag on the floor of the chemistry lab and started chatting shit to Noddy, and Mrs Fryn said I don’t think I like your attitude and he said I don’t think I like your face and she told him to leave and see the...
Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

Sep 16, 2023 | Essays, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Now that my daily duties involved a baby, I’d simply expanded my instrumental approach to accommodate the new reality: I wanted to know that I was doing whatever was required to obtain optimal future results in the domain of child-rearing as well. Except that...
Bewilderment

Bewilderment

Jul 29, 2023 | Fiction, Geekery | 0 comments

Over the run of eighty minutes, I tried to convey to a coven of twenty-one-year-olds with a wide spectrum of intellectual abilities just how absurd it was for everything to spring up out of nothing. The alignment of favorable circumstances for the emergence of...
Bewilderment

Bewilderment

Jun 10, 2023 | Fiction

My Robin didn’t always sleep well. He wet the bed a few times a season, and it hunched him over with shame. Noises unsettled him; he liked to turn the sound way down on the television, too low for me to hear. He hated when the cloth monkey wasn’t on its...
The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad

Dec 3, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

It was stupid of Icarius to try to drown the daughter of a naiad, however. Water is our element, it is our birthright. Although we are not such good swimmers as our mothers, we do have a way of floating, and we’re well connected among the fish and seabirds. A...