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We’re at Wefcon 3

Sylvia Shawcross In the ghastly world in which we live—a world that may be flat or not with a...

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Stoned Screaming Caterpillars

Sylvia Shawcross I know we’re really all tired of the types of people in the world but really there...

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The Butterfly Monologues

Sylvia Shawcross There are four types of people in the world. Well, in this world anyway. Now, the first...

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Tapestries and Tapeworms

Sylvia Shawcross Ah the scientists. Bless their happy little hearts I always say. Having known a few of them...

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Endless Tremendous

Sylvia Shawcross I don’t know what we’re all complaining about. Truly. The world is just so ripe with tremendous...

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Chicken Little Was an Optimist

Sylvia Shawcross Okay, to be honest, the title of this piece came from a comment by somebody on some...

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The Short and Brutal Life of the Fruit Fly

Sylvia Shawcross Now, there are only two types of people in the world and it has been this way...

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Wallabies and Wallpaper

Sylvia Shawcross Is anybody else as worried as I am? THEY are not saying it anymore. They drove us...

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I’m a noun and so are you

Sylvia Shawcross I’m afraid to go out there now. In the world I mean. Not because it is getting...

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When the Saints come marching in…

Sylvia Shawcross Well that is a relief right? Here we all were…. okay… some of us… okay… maybe ‘those...

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Mealmoth Flambé

Sylvia Shawcross Now, some of us, admittedly not a large number at this point, find ourselves up at midnight...

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The Long-Snouted Weevil

Sylvia Shawcross Well, here we are—living in the New Abnormal in the first world nations trying to figure out...

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Cricket Croquettes

Sylvia Shawcross Now, as the crimes against humanity mount in a world on the precipice of colossal change, our...

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The Dress

Sylvia Shawcross Warning. This is a vaguely humorous piece during a time when humour has basically crashed and died...

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