The Geecologist

Contrapposto

Contrapposto

Sep 5, 2026 | Fiction | 0 comments

“You feel like drawing?” Silas asked. Rob took his notebook from the tilted shelf and arranged it on the fur-covered beanbag on the floor. He grabbed his sleeve of colored markers, lay on his stomach, and turned the notebook’s thick pages until he found a blank one....
Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions

Mar 27, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

The words in the book, incidentally, were about life on a dying planet named Lingo-Three, whose inhabitants resembled American automobiles. They had wheels. They were powered by internal combustion engines. They ate fossil fuels. They weren’t manufactured,...
The Humans

The Humans

Nov 14, 2020 | Fiction | 0 comments

Humans are one of the few intelligent beings in the galaxy who haven’t quite solved the problem of death. And yet they don’t spend their whole lives screeching and howling in terror, clawing at their own bodies, or rolling around on the floor. Some humans do that...
Have You Got a Biro I Can Borrow?

Have You Got a Biro I Can Borrow?

Aug 3, 2019 | Fiction, Lyrics | 0 comments

Have you got a biro I can borrow? I’d like to write your name On the palm of my hand, on the walls of the hall The roof of the house, right across the land So when the sun comes up tomorrow It’ll look to this side of the hard-bitten planet Like a big yellow button...
The One Who Waits

The One Who Waits

Oct 6, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

I live in a well. I live like smoke in the well. Like vapor in a stone throat. I don’t move. I don’t do anything but wait. Overhead I see the cold stars of night and morning, and I see the sun. And sometimes I sing old songs of this world when it was young. How can I...