The Geecologist

Landmarks

Landmarks

Mar 28, 2020 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

Although I knew Gaelic to be richly responsive to the sites in which it was spoken, it was my guess that other tongues in these islands also possessed wealths of words for features of place – words that together constituted a vast vanished, or vanishing, language for...
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,...
Asterios Polyp

Asterios Polyp

Jan 30, 2011 | Fiction | 0 comments

You act like you already know everything about everyone. Did you even notice his cane? Do you have any idea how Kalvin got that broken hip? I don’t know… walking… through his apartment? Trying to march in Selma in 1965! Okay I get the point....
Yellow Dog

Yellow Dog

Oct 19, 2008 | Fiction | 0 comments

And the words enveloped him like an unrecognisable fart, saying: yes, oh yes, this is you, this is you.