Behind the Circuit: Writing with MS and with Intent

Welcome to the Hollow Circuit.

I'm Awen Null—a writer navigating the spiral loops of time, memory, and myth. I live with Secondary Progressive MS and write from the quiet edges: between flare-ups and late-night bursts, between the ruins of the old web and the promise of print-first futures.

The Hollow Circuit is a lunar punk science-fantasy born from resistance—against erasure, against forgetting, against the idea that certain stories or storytellers have an expiration date.

This space is intentionally offline-first. Print over pixels. Discovery over algorithms. Tangible pages, lino cuts, tarot decks, and mythic echoes.

If you’ve found your way here, welcome. You’re already part of the circuit.

The Hollow Circuit is something I wrote to survive myself. It’s bodypunk, lunarpunk, slow-burn gothic sci-fi. But underneath all that, it’s a refusal. A refusal to disappear. A refusal to let the creative part of me go dark, even when the body says it’s time to rest.

I have a laptop, a voice, and a determination to keep going.

Every sentence in The Hollow Circuit (novel and this site) has passed through my hands, my head, my heart. Every word has cost me something. Maybe you know what that’s like.

This blog will track the journey of the book—from cryptic zines left in cities to tarot decks printed with fungal glyphs. It will also track me: a disabled writer figuring out how to tell strange stories in a world that often forgets strange storytellers.

If you’ve found your way here, I’m glad you did. The signal reached you. The circuit remains unbroken.

— Awen Null