The Geecologist

The Day It Rained Forever

The Day It Rained Forever

Dec 23, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

And The Rock Cried Out “When I was a young man I was very full of wildness and ideas. I read all of the books from France by a man named Jules Verne. I see you know his name. But at night I many times thought I must be an inventor. That is all gone by; I never...
Dandelion Wine

Dandelion Wine

Nov 25, 2023 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Season of Disbelief The thing about the children happened in the middle of summer. Mrs. Bentley, coming out to water the ivy upon her front porch, saw two cool-colored sprawling girls and a small boy lying on her lawn, enjoying the immense prickling of the grass. At...
The Night

The Night

Oct 27, 2023 | Fiction, Short Stories | 1 comment

You are a child in a small town. You are, to be exact, eight years old, and it is growing late at night. Late for you, accustomed to bedding in at nine or nine-thirty: once in a while perhaps begging Mom or Dad to let you stay up later to hear Sam and Henry on that...
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...