Marlin Chetty is a Creative Director and copywriter - now exploring language, education and the dictionaries that divide us, and if writing with a meta-mindset is a good thing. Happily and awkwardly, he sits with blissful ignorance in a part of a study chair not yet soggy from the spill to come. The chair is in Vietnam, facing these very words on a screen - un-bothered by the identities of the unknown audience it will attract. Damp with dedication, he archives Wonder & Wonest, future folklore, with care, curiosity and visions conjured up from consumption of large red cups of Vietnamese coffee. Here, where humour and horror swap masks and perception becomes myth, he explores, (and stumbles on) how humans disguise grief in laughter and call it healing. The Giggle Chamber forms part of his evolving folklore series about the uneasy space between fear and farce. Some stories, including the Vibe Coding Disaster of 2027, is inspired by the distance between the spirited Vietnamese bar, a mere 4 meters below his balcony, and a laptop, coded to happy hour. The spill on the keyboard is caus...
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