Truth & Lies Archives - The Geecologist

Descending Figure

PORTRAIT A child draws the outline of a body.She draws what she can, but it is white all...

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one...

‘Every persisting marriage is based on fear,’ said Peregrine. Fear is fundamental, you dig down in...

At that time I was into finding and cleaning the skeletons of dead things. Mostly birds. I would...

‘There are a few things we need to eliminate,’ the doctor said. ‘A brain tumour is the first of...

I wanted to follow the rain on its meanderings about our land to rejoin the sea, to break out of...

A full short story by Ottessa Moshfegh called Nothing Ever Happens Here

I am wary of the dangers of fetishizing dialect and archaism – all that mollocking and sukebinding...

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth. One of the most...

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the...

But lately, as I track my mother’s shifting relation to her crime, I’ve remembered rumours of a...

I realised that I had what Sam did not. Even when it’s quite clear that people around me are...