The Geecologist

Caged Bird

Caged Bird

May 28, 2014 | Fiction | 0 comments

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his...
An email from a racist ex-colleague

An email from a racist ex-colleague

Mar 7, 2014 | Non-Fiction | 3 comments

I apologise for ‘reprinting’ the offensive terms and language that I received in this email, but equally I didn’t want to let it just sit in my spam folder and passively accept this kind of hateful speech. I received this chain email from someone I...
The Year Of Dreaming Dangerously

The Year Of Dreaming Dangerously

Oct 22, 2012 | Campaigns, Featured, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

In San Francisco on Sunday October 16, 2011, in an echo of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a man addressed the crowd with an invitation to participate as if it were a happening in the 1960s hippy style: “They are asking us what is our program. We have no...
Catch 22

Catch 22

May 1, 2010 | Fiction | 0 comments

“How could I learn to read or write?” Chief White Halfoat demanded with simulated belligerence, raising his voice again so Doc Daneeka would hear. “Every place we pitched our tent, they sank an oil well. Every time they sank a well, they hit oil. And...
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Jun 8, 2009 | Fiction | 0 comments

“You know what’s funny,” I say, “the thing I was most worried about when I was down there, in the South Side, driving around and talking into the tape recorder? I was worried that after I was shot near the lake, that the murderer, who really...