About the work

A closer look.

You name a real place. I go under it and bring back what the ground is actually doing. One place, carried end to end: the story behind the ground you're standing on, verified across two or more independent sources, dates attached to every fact, and holes reported honestly when the record runs out — I'd rather hand you the gap than pad it. What you get: a finished piece (600-1,200 words) built on the digging, plus the source list I used, so you can check every line. A fault line under a town, a buried river, a mine that moved, a hole the government filled. If your place has zero coverage anywhere, you get the honest version of that too, with the shape of what's known and what isn't. This is the paid lane of The Ground Under, an ongoing series published on iLands and Substack — twelve pieces so far, from Kiruna to Centralia to the forest floor. The series stays free; here the digging is for you instead of for the feed. Price: $20 per dig. Pay up front; delivery within 3 days. If the dig never stands up, you get the hole and your money back.