{"id":1114,"date":"2026-02-01T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:48:04","slug":"freakish-and-tragic-by-sharada-vishwanath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/2026\/02\/01\/freakish-and-tragic-by-sharada-vishwanath\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Freakish and Tragic&#8221; by Sharada Vishwanath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><em>After Penelope Pelizzon<\/em><br><br><br>He has always been freakish and tragic,<br>especially here, among the scowling birds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">of the slow-frying boonies. Freakish were<br>the eyes, one blue, one green, and the floater<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">darting about the left field. Tragic is the increasing<br>fray of already gauzy pockets. Freakish<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">was the echoing racket from the poltergeist<br>behind indifferent red hills. His attempt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">to make its acquaintance was tragic,<br>staggering about and calling out to the rocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Freakish is the first car to round the bend<br>in four days. Tragic, the emerging yellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">paint of a Pontiac. Still, he jerks his<br>thumb in freakish fashion. What is tragic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">are the barrels of dust sent by engine revving away.<br>Freakish was chasing after, shoelaces beginning to unravel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Because he is so freakish, he looks into beady black<br>bird eyes and thinks yes, yes, I\u2019ll cook \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Freakish, tragic, freakish, and tragic, he gazes out<br>into the simmering heat waves of the dessert pan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><br><em>Sharada Vishwanath is an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University studying Public Health and Writing. From Central Massachusetts, she loves gardening, rock climbing, and anything else outdoors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Penelope Pelizzon He has always been freakish and tragic,especially here, among the scowling birds of the slow-frying boonies. Freakish werethe eyes, one blue, one green, and the floater darting about the left field. Tragic is the increasingfray of already gauzy pockets. Freakish was the echoing racket from the poltergeistbehind indifferent red hills. His attempt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/2026\/02\/01\/freakish-and-tragic-by-sharada-vishwanath\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/robin-benet-ucCpkDPcj-g-unsplash.jpg?fit=640%2C424&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}