The Geecologist

Orbital

Orbital

Dec 21, 2024 | Fiction, Geekery | 0 comments

We have all been travelling, the crew thinks, travelling for years with barely a moment of settling; all of us living out of bags and borrowed places, hotels, space centres and training facilities, sleeping on friends’ sofas in midway cities between one training...
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...
What A Carve Up!

What A Carve Up!

Feb 17, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

And here is Henry, Thomas’s younger brother, already recognized as one of the most ambitious Labour MPs of his generation. Their relationship goes beyond the ordinary ties of blood and extends to a number of common business interests, for Henry has a seat on the board...
The Humans

The Humans

Nov 14, 2020 | Fiction | 0 comments

Humans are one of the few intelligent beings in the galaxy who haven’t quite solved the problem of death. And yet they don’t spend their whole lives screeching and howling in terror, clawing at their own bodies, or rolling around on the floor. Some humans do that...
Descending Figure

Descending Figure

Oct 17, 2020 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

PORTRAIT A child draws the outline of a body.She draws what she can, but it is white all through,she cannot fill in what she knows is there.Within the unsupported line, she knowsthat life is missing; she has cutone background from another. Like a child,she turns to...