A.R. Geiger

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  • Reading on a Budget

    Books are expensive. Let’s just all admit that right now. Books are a good way to go broke as quickly as possible, especially if you are like me and love the beautiful, hardback special editions of your favorite novels. Someday, I will have bookshelves worth millions. And I will still be broke. Seriously, though, how…

  • Snakes

    They pay us before we catch the first snake. Our reputation has spread for this kind of work, and now the villages we approach trust us enough to pay us before our work is done, however much we look like gypsies. I think they would rather not see us after the job is done anyway.…

  • The Flower Man

    Okay, I know what you’re thinking. “Who writes a book review on a picture book?” I do. Because I am an adult, and I have goals and priorities and schedules and bills and insurance. I also have a candy jar in my kitchen for extreme and vital emergencies. It’s filled with smarties. Yum. But seriously,…

  • God’s Smuggler

    Some books stick with you. We all know the feeling, I’m sure. That one book that was so powerful, so life-changing, so essential to who we are, that we just can’t let it go. It sits in the back of our bookshelf, thumbed through too many times, read over and over until we can quote…

  • Gravekeeper

    I take them to the tombs as soon as they arrive. Marcus brings them out of the trees like a huddle of wet chicks, their hair and clothes drenched by the weeping rain, their eyes wide in their thin faces. I’ve never seen him bring so many, but he says that the silver mines are…

  • Book Reviews: “The Birdwoman” and “Evocation”

    Originally posted on Kristin Houlihan, Writer: I don’t usually read short stories, though not really for any particular reason, but the two collections I’m reviewing here today make me wonder whether I should more actively seek them out. When I was brand new to Twitter a few short months ago I went on a book-accumulating…