The Geecologist

Hope In The Dark

Hope In The Dark

Apr 27, 2024 | Essays, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

On January 18, 1915, six months into the first world war, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, “The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.” Dark, she seems to say,...
On Getting Along

On Getting Along

Apr 6, 2024 | Letters, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

You ask how I manage to stay involved and remain seemingly happy and adjusted to this awful world where the efforts of caring people pale in comparison to those who have power?It’s easy. First, don’t let “those who have power” intimidate you....
Timbuktu

Timbuktu

Dec 30, 2023 | Fiction

He spent the night in a vacant lot, cowering under a profusion of weedy growths and pinprick stars, barely able to keep his eyes shut for more than five unbroken minutes. Bad as the day had been, the night was even worse, for this was the first night he had ever spent...
Damned If I Do

Damned If I Do

Dec 9, 2023 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Epigenesis “What are you doing?” the trout asks. “I’m turning on the heat.” “Leave it off.” Alan Turing does. “My wife is very smart,” he says. He doesn’t look at the fish while he speaks. “She’s...
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...