The Geecologist

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.”...
Homesick for Another World

Homesick for Another World

Apr 21, 2019 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

A Dark and Winding RoadAround nine o’clock, I pulled my sleeping bag out and unrolled it on the bed which was covered in old blankets and dust and mouse poop, and slept with no trouble at all. In the morning I guzzled a litre of mineral water and drove on the dark and...
Delta of Venus

Delta of Venus

Dec 8, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger,...
4 3 2 1

4 3 2 1

Jul 18, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

On the other hand, he did have his inspired moments, inexplicable jags of rambunctiousness when something in him was temporarily set free and he turned into a joking, daredevil prankster, as, for example, the night when he showed off for her in the kitchen of her...
The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits

Jan 6, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

My wife didn’t miss the refinements she had been accustomed to, and the day the shipment of furniture and household goods I had ordered to surprise her arrived at the door, all she said was how “lovely” it was. I myself had to figure out where...