Take Quick Action Scream at your daughter for waking you up at 1 a.m. to tell you that she’s read on the internet that there is a cult in the remote town where you’ve been hunkering down to ride out the plague of COVID. You’re exhausted. WTF! Ascertain Risk If the cult has a web page that has been updated for COVID-19, they are probably still in town. Determine whether the cult is garden variety: Are they dancing across a prairie in white peasant skirts, singing in the Wessex dialect of Middle English? Or are they for sure conjuring dark…
Author: Margaret Hetherman
Margaret Hetherman
Margaret Hetherman is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work can be found on McSweeney's, Weekly Humorist, The Belladonna Comedy, BitchMedia, The Establishment, NY Daily News, Gothamist/WNYC, Washington Post, and more.