The Geecologist

Playground

Playground

Nov 2, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

If you want to make something smarter, teach it to play. No one denied the play of mammals. A giant oceanic manta ray brain was the largest and heaviest of any animal that breathed water. The telencephalon and cerebellum – parts of the brain devoted in mammals...
Bewilderment

Bewilderment

Jul 29, 2023 | Fiction, Geekery | 0 comments

Over the run of eighty minutes, I tried to convey to a coven of twenty-one-year-olds with a wide spectrum of intellectual abilities just how absurd it was for everything to spring up out of nothing. The alignment of favorable circumstances for the emergence of...
Bewilderment

Bewilderment

Jun 10, 2023 | Fiction

My Robin didn’t always sleep well. He wet the bed a few times a season, and it hunched him over with shame. Noises unsettled him; he liked to turn the sound way down on the television, too low for me to hear. He hated when the cloth monkey wasn’t on its...
The Time of Our Singing

The Time of Our Singing

Oct 9, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

At home, her worst nightmare settles in for a double feature. Her mother insists she sit down for Easter dinner. “You have a bite of my holiday ham and get something green and filling in you. Specially if you’re taking a trip.” “Mama. Please. Just this once. I’m going...
The Time of Our Singing

The Time of Our Singing

Jul 10, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

By the time the train reaches his destination, the child owns it. Charmed strangers wish him well when he gets off at a tiny Delta town called Money. He steps off the platform into a crowd of boys, his instant friends. He appears to them as another species, a creature...