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I write words, I sometimes get to perform them out, sometimes I'm even paid. And I'm trying to get it right, get it right.
with enough repetition, your flaws become your style
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prompt: pop, title: for external use only in misc. flash fiction
Having a national symbol is a wonderful thing, in concept. Something inspiring and unifying to rally around. In practice, it usually comes up short as any country is too varied and fractious for...
nov 21 in idea barrages
Why say you’re “compulsively drinking vodka gimlets” when you can say you “have lime disease”? Finishing up the illustration of a comic book, that’s just drawing conclusions. A Hallo...
nov 19 in idea barrages
That Cookie Monster, what a crumb dumpster. I’m always fascinated by the things we pretend in civilization to try & feign we’re better than we are. There are oven cooking directions ...
nov 17 in idea barrages
If a movement’s really about helping people, it has to also have empathy for how the American economic system makes it so very hard to have time/money for activism. If you’re so strident on ...
nov 15 in idea barrages
It’s easy to do parodies of classic rock songs if they have an -ipple word in the word, just change that to “nipple” and it writes itself. I can only think of The Band’s “Up on Cripple Creek...
(sometimes, I write the same idea twice in two forms, in parallel, to see how they manifest differently) Have you ever noticed how the names of skin conditions if they weren’t actually diseases...
nov 13 in idea barrages
Creativity doesn’t comes from mental instability. Co-related but no causation. A package deal but madness is not a muse, it’s just along for the ride. Art shine brightest when the monster in...
nov 11 in idea barrages
If you think about it, whenever you had your first Shirley Temple was probably also when you busted your Maraschino cherry. A rapping lich called “Soul Jar Boy”. If you drink too man...
to the tune of ELEANOR RIGBY in song parodies
Ah, look at that one tiny person! Ah, look at that one tiny person! Danny Devito Offers an egg in support, during these trying times It isn’t a crime Helming “Matilda” Narrating, playing th...
In a world where student loans exist, how could we possibly be afraid of ghosts? We are all daily harassed by strangers from the other side of the world because of a decision we made at 17, ...
conditional love in poetry
Have you ever noticed how if the names of many skin conditions weren’t the names of skin conditions they’d be exotically beautiful names for woman performers? Like pop stars or strippers? ...
nov 7 in idea barrages
Ewan McGregor is cast in a Tarzan bio-pic and meets Tarzan himself as part of his research. “Mr. McGregor, me Tarzan.” “Please. Just Ewan.” “Just Ewan, me Tarzan.” “Just me and you what?”...
prompt: board, title: look away in "the next big thing" flash fiction
American culture has two obsessions that always bite us in the ass, personally and collectively: answers and endings, a&e. There’s a cable station named that. Even though the name was “arts ...
nov 5 in idea barrages
Pretend that you believe a character in D&D that uses both martial prowess and magical skill a “Gish” out of respect to the versatility of the great silent film star Lillian Gish. A ...
nove 3 in idea barrages
An anime about the powered armor battles of Mesopotamia lost to history called GILGAMECHS. Duramax, Cummins, Power Stroke, it turns out all the diesel engines these days have names like ...
nove 1 in idea barrages
The Feast of St. Ernest is on the Heyvernal Equinox. In the fancy neighborhoods, they Robert for apples instead. “White magic rituals only” She said, like some kind of Dudley Do-Rit...
prompt: mass, title: thanks a lot in misc. flash fiction
One of the more overlooked difficulties with the structure of American culture is the way we lay out our holidays. Folks act like holidays are inviolate pillars of historical and societal consta...
oct 30 in idea barrages
Zootopia fan fiction contains entirely too much bunnilingus. I like to believe that the bottom ranks of a rugby league are referred to as the “scrum dumpster”. Turns out that they’re...
oct 28 in idea barrages
A police procedural about food crimes called “Law and Order: Special Victuals Unit”. Why say “fisting orgy” when you can say “three-hole punch”? When you need a ritual in five minute...
oct 26 in idea barrages
I hope that one day the future archeologists think that the Masters of the Universe franchise was actually a religion, because I really want them theorizing about Orkodox priests. An old...
prompt: place, title: reflexive pronouns in "the next big thing" flash fiction
Just to be clear, none of this is to say I hate Los Angeles. That’s far from the case. It’s beautiful. It might be the most gorgeous place under all the blues of heaven. But that’s sort of the p...
oct 24 in idea barrages
I’ve always enjoyed the irony that Cat Stevens’ song “Wild World” might be the least wild song of all time. Shedding your sense of expectation, maybe even entitlement, is difficult enoug...
oct 22 in idea barrages
The Green Goblin truck from that terrible Stephen King movie except it’s Shrek and it’s called MAXIMUM OGREDRIVE. Jeff Goldblum as Count Von Count, the dialogue would be 80% just the syl...
oct 20 in idea barrages
Why say “pregnant despite chastity belt” when you could say “snatch-key kid”? That feeling of “why do I keep playing this video game when I’m so bad at it, why do I enjoy it anyway?” but...
oct 18 in idea barrages
ABANDON METER, BECOME PROSE. Even though I don’t like eating candy corn, The Candy Corn Discourse is so heavy, it makes me WANT to like it. A non-alcoholic strip club called BOTTOMLE...
