Wild Like a Woman
Thalia Geiger’s debut poetry chapbook is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2025.
Thalia Geiger is a poet and fiction writer born and raised in Philadelphia.
She is a poetry editor at Frontier Poetry and at Bleating Thing Magazine. Her work has been published in journals such as Allegory Ridge, Santa Ana River Review, New York Quarterly, Toho Publishing’s The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia, and more.
Look for her new poetry collection, forthcoming in 2025
from Finishing Line Press.
Excerpt from “The Right Intention” a flash fiction piece
Published online at Grim & Gilded
Time seemed to stand still for as long as she willed it, as long as Mara didn’t let any muscle in her body move another inch. Several long minutes had passed as she sat there on her knees, hard gravel imprinting onto her skin through the gaps in her torn tights. The dull soreness shifted to a deep ache she knew would yield bruises, but she still couldn’t bring herself to move, her hands still strained in a claw-like grip though she held nothing in them but the cold night’s damp air. Rain was soon to come. And the stiffening body in front of her would soon be slick and sodden, wreathed by shallow puddles, but not gone. How soon would he start to bloat? She still needed to think, so she hardly breathed, needing more time. Almost lifeless herself, she barely blinked even as stinging tears welled now in her eyes.