A.R. Geiger

My Blog

  • Pumpkin Patch

    We harvest the pumpkins by candlelight when the moon hangs full over the black trees and the wind is cold. The goblins steal them otherwise. The stories say they see where we take them if we harvest during the day, and any other night they’d be in the fields themselves, stealing them anyway. So we…

  • Tarzan of the Apes

    I have a tip for you. When you are traveling with a backpack and running through train stations in Europe, it is probably not the best idea to carry a whole stack of books with you. Your shoulders will get very tired. I promise. The reason that I know this, is because I did travel…

  • Mother

    We go to the bath houses after the healers leave us. She always likes to go to the bath houses first, to get the smell of their herbs off her skin. She’s never liked healers. Their prodding fingers, their clucking tongues. Their remedies that have never really taken away any of her pain. I’ve spent…

  • When You Don’t Have Time

    “No one reads anymore.” Do you know how many times I have heard that? Articles, people ranting on social media. Everywhere you look someone else is making the claim that no one reads anymore. But I do. I’ve read nearly forty books this year, everything from classic literature to mythology to YA and children’s books.…

  • All The Light We Cannot See

    I am a big fan of historical fiction and nonfiction. Especially anything connected with WWII. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Book Thief. (Both fiction.) The Hiding Place, The Diary of a Young Girl, Schindler’s List. (All nonfiction.) I’ve read them all at one point or another. And loved them all. So I…

  • Merchant

    Her booth is in an alley, back behind the dumpsters. She doesn’t like me to come very often, especially since she knows I only buy once a week. I don’t have money for more, but it’s hard to stay away. I don’t have anywhere else to go. The streets around her are gray, gray as…