Chicken Little Was an Optimist
Sylvia Shawcross Okay, to be honest, the title of this piece came from a comment by somebody on some forum somewhere which stuck in my head because it made...
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 since the second generation of humans existed: those who know...
Wallabies and Wallpaper
Sylvia Shawcross Is anybody else as worried as I am? THEY are not saying it anymore. They drove us crazy for at least a year when Covid arrived. There...
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 more and more violent or because of the germs or...
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 people’ were worrying with all that is going on that...
Mealmoth Flambé
Sylvia Shawcross Now, some of us, admittedly not a large number at this point, find ourselves up at midnight reading The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet and wondering...
The Long-Snouted Weevil
Sylvia Shawcross Well, here we are—living in the New Abnormal in the first world nations trying to figure out what to do with those little plastic tabs they put...
Cricket Croquettes
Sylvia Shawcross Now, as the crimes against humanity mount in a world on the precipice of colossal change, our hope lies in Artificial Intelligence. This is the way it...
The Dress
Sylvia Shawcross Warning. This is a vaguely humorous piece during a time when humour has basically crashed and died a thousand deaths. If you haven’t laughed since 2019, it...
