Silence Killed the Dinosaurs by Lucy Grove-Jones

Category: Stories

  • Call me Foureyes

    Call me Foureyes

    Comic-me (awkward mid-sentence tangent that shouldn’t be happening two hyphenated words into the story: I have decided to refer to my drawn-self as ‘comic-me’ rather than ‘cartoon-me’ because it can be misread as I am comic, i.e. amusing, and I’m okay with that) is getting a makeover…

  • “So, what do you do?”: An Apology

    “So, what do you do?”: An Apology

    My apology comes on two fronts. First, I’m sorry to people who ask me this question. You don’t really know me and you’re trying to maintain conversation through the inevitable lull. You pull out the old faithful “so, what do you do?” expecting a good fifteen minutes where you can just coast on me nattering…

  • Obligatory Wedding Planning Rant

    Obligatory Wedding Planning Rant

    Weddings are hard. If you haven’t yet organised one, I know that you think you already know this. You don’t. Before I got engaged, I thought I knew about them. I thought I knew how over-the-top they could get, how stupidly expensive they are and how rigid some people’s opinions about the dos and don’ts…

  • Always Remember the Silver Lining

    Always Remember the Silver Lining

    When you suddenly notice bad vibes coming from your bathroom drain…

  • A Quest to Emergency: Follow Up

    A Quest to Emergency: Follow Up

    My partner loved what I wrote about his injury. He was delighted to find himself in a starring role in a blog-story and to have his ant-war cartoonised. But he quickly began to regret turning down my offer or re-writing the injury part with dragons. He didn’t make a big deal about it, but I…

  • A Quest to Emergency (Alternative Title: If this ever happens to me, I’m going to lie and say it was dragons)

    A Quest to Emergency (Alternative Title: If this ever happens to me, I’m going to lie and say it was dragons)

    Last week I got a call from my partner while he was at work. “I’m okay, but I’ve had an accident!” he said. My mind went straight to…

  • Warning: May Contain Traces of Spiders

    Warning: May Contain Traces of Spiders

    Do you ever wonder if spiders just want attention? Maybe they don’t hang out in our showers because they are spiteful and want to ruin our mornings with a fight to the death over the shampoo. Maybe they just want to spend time with us, but don’t understand how humans do things. They watch how…

  • How to Propose with Extra Dinosaurs

    How to Propose with Extra Dinosaurs

    “Where have you been these last few months? We’ve been suffering without regular posts filled with your sparkling wit and hilarious cartoons!” I know. I know, guys. I’m so sorry for abandoning you to several dull, me-less months. But I’ve had stuff on…

  • Foibles (little crazy things)

    Foibles (little crazy things)

    I parenthetically (in brackets) translate words in my head. Not all words. In fact, not even most words. Most words slip through my mind without leaving a ripple. This lulls me into the false sense of security that I know them well. In reality if I was put on the spot to concisely define a…

  • The Importance of Basking in the Glory of Small Victories

    The Importance of Basking in the Glory of Small Victories

    Recently* a friend told me something surprising. Recently* a friend told me something surprising. It took me some time to soak this peculiar idea up. I am far too used to thinking of myself as the opposite, and so the idea that I might be considered ‘impressive’ was altogether too strange to be believed…