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River and Celia Underland

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  • Call for Submissions: The Underland Review. This Zine is a Lie.
    A call for poets, glitchers, microfictionists, rebels, and ghosts. The Underland Review wants work that twitches, burns, self-destructs. No bios. No AI sludge. No gods. Just stories that shouldn't exist.
  • The spectrum is helical & every arrow is a boomerang.
    There are nights when silence moves like prey.
  • Ode to the Canari
    The soft O of your lullaby cracked like the wound, We once called progress for a farthing or two.
  • The Golden Apple
    They told us to smile. Eyes white. Teeth on show. Beam. "Ні, ні, люба. Очима. Посміхнися очима. Їм потрібно тебе бачити," I am sorry.
  • Sundial
    Here, In the slant of first morning light Mangoes taste like honey and The kind of sex Gods had Before man named its master. Birds singContinue reading "Sundial"
  • Dispatches from the Void. X.VIIII. Thailand Edition.
    We’re settling into a routine in Thailand—the house is coming together, and I’m waiting on a volunteer post that could lead to my teaching certificate. Celia helped pull together a portfolio site, which reminded me how much my art has shifted over the years. I’m still looping Eragon at night while searching for a new epic fantasy, and we’ve found a driver, Nan, who makes errands far easier. I’ve started offering prints of my Thailand photography, and through it all, life feels both surreal and deeply grounding with Celia by my side.
  • Dispatches from the Void. X.VIIII. Thailand 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.
  • Dispatches from the Void: River’s Corner
    River is stepping forward to focus on art while Celia teaches. After years without a steady practice, River is reclaiming the title of artist by treating life like a residency—committing to eat, sleep, and breathe art again. Process has always mattered more than finished pieces, though some works, especially from the long-running Faces series, stand out. These portraits explore tension, unease, and the experience of being neurodivergent, particularly the discomfort of eye contact. River continues to paint faces and make photographs, and is now seeking funding and residencies to expand the series with mixed media elements such as fabric and beads, pushing the work into new dimensions. #BangkokEats #ThailandFoodie #WhatToEatInThailand #BangkokTravel #SushiLovers #ShabuShabu #ArtistInThailand #PrintifyShop #FoodAndArt
  • Dispatches from the Void: Food for Thought
    Falling in love with Bangkok, one bite at a time. From scallops that changed everything to long evenings over Shabu-Shabu at Akase Shabu, Shabu Chain, and sushi at 584homemadeJapanese food and Ude Izakaya & Sushi Bar—Thailand really is all about the food. And I’m finally making art again, too. #BangkokEats #ThailandFoodie #WhatToEatInThailand #BangkokTravel #SushiLovers #ShabuShabu #ArtistInThailand #PrintifyShop #FoodAndArt
  • Dispatches from the Void. X.VIIII. Thailand 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.
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