The Geecologist

Invisible Man

Invisible Man

Feb 6, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

“Come in,” I said. The door opened slowly. A group of youth members crowded forward, their faces a question. The girls were crying. “Is it true?” they said. “That he is dead? Yes,” I said, looking among them. “Yes.”...
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.”...
The Furious Passage of James Baldwin

The Furious Passage of James Baldwin

Nov 3, 2018 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

He was about ten, and puny for his age, when two Harlem patrolmen stopped him in an empty lot. Smug in their bias, snug in it, they amused themselves with speculation on his ancestry and probably sexual prowess while they frisked him. They him flat on his back....
Scoop

Scoop

Apr 21, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

That evening, sometime after the advertised hour, Mr. Salter alighted at Boot Magna Halt. An hour earlier, at Taunton, he had left the express, and changed into a train such as he did not know existed outside the imagination of his Balkan correspondents; a single...