By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com Satirists all over the nation are faced with skyrocketing unemployment rates as their articles have begun to write themselves. Have you ever wondered what happened to those funny but dysfunctional girls you knew in high school? According to satirical biographer Toni Quartz, many became satire writers. […]
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com It really did happen. I have to remind myself sometimes that it was not just a story I heard—not a story that happened to somebody else. I really did start bleeding at 29 weeks pregnant. The words, “placental abruption” and “in case we have to deliver,” […]
By MockMom Contributors She accessed State Department emails from a private server. Over 30,000 of those emails were deleted. We know she had something to do with Benghazi but we’re not exactly sure what. Her husband was unfaithful. Her pantsuits are all the same, and they’re awful. We probably don’t […]
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com Dear Toppy, I have been wondering how to best contact you, knowing as I do that sending correspondence in the mail would cause confusion and delay because your mail train is currently in rehab for his habit of huffing and puffing crack. Since you cut the […]
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com and Melissa Janisin of goodnessmadness.com Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears. It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, and I must set the record straight. It has come to my attention that I am being accused of plager… plagia… stealing words for the […]
By Rhiannon Giles of Rhiyaya.com The line between quirky and weird seemed to be stuck between my fingers. That feeling when you eat a donut or an ice cream cone and the residue makes your fingers so sticky that you desperately want to find a sink? That’s how they felt. Licking them […]
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com Durham, NC – Seemingly oblivious to the stares and hushed comments, local mother Ruby Grace was recently seen reading at the park while her children, Arlo and Eliza, played quietly nearby. The 35-year-old mother of two was the subject of much speculation as she sat with […]
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com “They’re only young once.” The words are superimposed on an idyllic picture of a child in nature or a beach with footprints leading to the horizon. There’s always a hazy filter. The bottom caption implores you to leave a counter full of dirty dishes, to eschew […]