The Geecologist

James

James

Apr 26, 2025 | Fiction | 0 comments

I walked outside and over to the big fire, where the men were sitting. I was greeted and then I sat. We talked some about what happened to a runaway over at another farm. “Yeah, they beat him real good,” Doris said. Doris was a man, but that didn’t seem to matter to...
Our Strangers

Our Strangers

Mar 29, 2025 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

I’m on the train, traveling alone, with two seats to myself. I have to use the restroom. Without thinking about it carefully, I ask a couple across the aisle if they would please watch my things for me for a moment. Then I take a closer look at them and have second...
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

Mar 1, 2025 | Fiction

I was in that state between waking and sleeping. From there you can wander towards either of the two. You can go away in a dream or you can open your eyes, be aware of your body, the room, the crows cawing in the snow outside the window. What distinguishes this state...
Orbital

Orbital

Nov 23, 2024 | Fiction, Geekery | 0 comments

Today is his four hundredth and thirty-fourth day in space, a tally arrived at over three different missions. He keeps close count. Of this mission it’s day eighty-eight. In a single nine-month mission there are in total roughly five hundred and forty hours of morning...
The Buffalo

The Buffalo

Oct 19, 2019 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

But it was spring. Even the lion licked the lioness’s smooth forehead. Both animals blond. The woman averted her eyes from the cage, where the hot smell alone recalled the carnage she’d come looking for at the Zoological Gardens. Then the lion paced calmly, mane...