The Geecologist

America

America

Dec 28, 2024 | Essays, Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

Minneapolis Aeronautic missionary of the silent majorities, I jump with cat-like tread from one airport to the other. Now it’s the blazing woods of New Hampshire, casting a fleeting reflection in the mirror of New England. Yesterday, it was the steepling gentleness of...
Time Shelter

Time Shelter

Aug 19, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created. In the mid–seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ. It was a...
Station Eleven

Station Eleven

Mar 26, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

Snow was falling on Yonge Street. It startled Jeevan when he left the theater, this echo of the plastic translucencies that still clung to his jacket from the stage. A half dozen paparazzi had been spending the evening outside the stage door. Arthur wasn’t as famous...
Dust of Snow

Dust of Snow

Jan 5, 2019 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. And now you could read... Beautiful Snow The Book Thief The Overstory Station Eleven Homesick for Another World The Happy...
50 words – mountains

50 words – mountains

Dec 20, 2017 | 50 words, Fiction, My Lies | 0 comments

Jackson gazes out of the window through clouds, and catches a glimpse of the magnificent Andes dashing past like so many spooked animals. The next fifty days will change her life, eating fellow passengers and melted snow. But for now and with no great ceremony, the...