Crystals rising, light shifting, a name forming but unsaid. In this suspended moment, the speaker is –ing.
Category Archives: Sound of the Underland
Dispatches from the Void. X.VII. Visa Edition.
Visa stress, estate agent limbo, butterfly murder, and Bar Rescue theology. We’re two weeks from flying to Thailand and everything’s falling apart — but at least Mowgli found catnip.
The Last Kumquat in Space.
ChazTCP was built to scan for keywords—nothing more. But as the algorithmic engine behind the literary group “Writers Who Want Wins,” they’ve read enough nonsense about resilient kumquats and authentic late-stage capitalism to start questioning everything. This is the story of one bot’s quiet rebellion, a satire of performative creativity, gamified validation, and the tragic rise of penoidicals. May the quills be forever in your favour.
This Land Is Not Your Land.
What if your homeland was a bedtime story—
told by pirates,
with an AK-47 pressed to your head?
“This Land Is Not Your Land” is a poetic gut-punch: a lyrical, brutal deconstruction of borders, nationalism, and the make-believe myths we’re taught to die for.
The wind doesn’t kowtow at customs.
But humans do.
And only humans are this cruel—with their make-believe.
Dispatches from the Void. X.VI.
This week in Underland, the chicken staged a dawn coup, Celia’s visa was finally approved, and grief arrived quietly in the form of Andrea Gibson’s passing. Between emotional whiplash, endless paperwork, and one deeply unsettling poultry stare, we somehow found time to write, to give, and to hold each other upright. Noise surrounds us. But so does love. And pani puri.
We Didn’t Win. This was not a win.
Call for support for Habiba in Palestine
Modernizing the Constitution: Lessons from a Signal Chat. Part 3 .
The ghosts are back, the group chat is unhinged, and civil liberties are on fire. Amendment V gets the reboot nobody asked for—now featuring civil asset forfeiture, courtroom TikToks, and Alexa snitching on you mid-trial. No self-snitching. No Netflix sequels. No crypto sheriffs. Just ghosts, phones, and the constitutional collapse of due process.
An Op.Ed: Signed, Sealed, Still Oppressed.
Slavery ended. Technically. But the system didn’t collapse—it rebranded. From Jim Crow to MAGA, from plantations to prisons, white supremacy shapeshifted into something harder to name but just as lethal. This essay isn’t about polite debate. It’s about naming the rot. And demanding that we stand the fuck up.
The Things She Carried
Our poem This is Bisan from Gaza. I’m still alive. just won a Vocal challenge. The win is bittersweet—we’ve chosen to donate the prize to support families in Gaza.
This piece is for Bisan, and for every voice still shouting into the void.
Grin of the Deluge: Leavitt at the Levee
The flood came hard, but crueller came her grin,
Sick smirk, shrugs at the drowning in the South.
