Creative projects, once you unleash them, take on a life of their own. Like biological weapons, or children. When I started Sludgie eighteen months ago, I was pushing pencils around my desk in the accounting department of Griffith Observatory, City Of Los Angeles. Now, after dramatizing life in a bureaucratic institution for the web series “God, Inc”, I’m a working screenwriter, and poor Sludgie has been left sorely neglected. However, I continue to get emails from readers, and books to review from publishers, and invites to environmental karaoke nights, and even though I left it abandoned on a desert highway in 118 degree weather, Sludgie has refused to die.

Something else has happened over the past year and a half, thanks to Sludgie – I’ve met a lot of amazing, interesting and passionate writers and environmentalists. So I reached out to one and asked if she would step on as a contributor, and she graciously accepted: Stephanie Weir, writer of the blog Shortcake. I hope you enjoy her writing as much as I do. And thank you, Stephanie, for helping keep my creative project-biological weapon-child alive for future readers to enjoy.