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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.
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Nearly everyone remembers the scene in “Peter Pan” when his shadow tries to escape from its attachment then Wendy captures and manages to sew it back on, yes? Have you ever wondered why his shade...
one of the new slangs by the kids on the facespaces and the twitzels is to say of someone attractive “oh that person’s such a snack” and I don’t know conflating someone’s lust with their ap...
keyword "portfolio" title "fighting words" in misc. flash fiction
I’m astonishingly lucky that my favorite curse word “damn” is considered a relatively tame one. You may not want to say it in front of a child or in church unless you’re quoting from the Bible ve...
ma12 in idea barrages
1.) No man is an island, not even Islandman. (He’s actually an isthmus.) 2.) I like to believe that when the actor who voiced Admiral Akbar was told to try out for the role by his agent, he thoug...
ma11 in idea barrages
1.) Are you sure you could ACTUALLY handle being a coroner? Remains to be seen. 2.) HOT TAKE: Todd Rundgren’s “Dust In The Wind” is better than Kansas’ song of the same name. 3.) The most damning...
In every timeline where we killed Hitler early, things ended up as least as bad. Usually worse. Here at Zeitgeist Time Management, sitting outside of causality, we learned this the hard way. Ever...
ma10 in idea barrages
1.) I mean, yeah, I’m singing Doors parodies about Deep Space Nine, aren’t you? “Mister O-Do’s Risin’, Mister O-Do’s Risin’, RISIN’ RISIN!” 2.) Sadly, the very smartest of the dinosaurs were too ...
keyword "reckless" title "the wink" in misc. flash fiction
Sometimes I feel my life has been defined by how few risks I’ve taken, how little stomach I have them. I can’t even parallel park for fear of smashing someone’s car, every driver’s test I’ve take...
ma9 in idea barrages
1.) At the end of Willy Wonka, was Violet Beauregarde… berried alive? 2.) The other big thing saving my mind in the middle of this all is a tool my dad left me, maybe even specifically for situat...
ma8 in idea barrages
1.) A parody of John Lennon’s WOMAN about a wolfman? 2.) The fact that we don’t have Wishbone around anymore to introduce PBS children to George RR Martin’s work in A GAME OF BONES is a loss for ...
keyword "pilot" title "meltdown" in "the next big thing" flash fiction
I was well-jaded to celebrity sightings at that point, working for the modestly famous myself. I wasn’t anyone, of course, just a gofer in a small production office, go for this, go for that but ...
ma7 in idea barrages
1.) If you’re writing a story about the Disney and Warner Brothers characters going off to fight in Vietnam and slowly being dragged down into bitterness, madness and despair, you better damn wel...
ma6 in idea barrages
1.) People who want “the big corner office” unnerve me. I don’t understand the impulse to having big flashy abusive power. I just wanna work from a computer in a converted closet or from a stage,...
ma5 in idea barrages
1.) For the first time in over three months, I wanted to clean the house, it felt like it needed doing, like it was worth doing, like it wasn’t just meaningless in the face of the weight of how a...
starwars day in idea barrages
1.) If you turn a pair of Converses inside-out are they now a pair of Contrapositives? 2.) When law is just a mechanism to justify, to codify hate and fear, discard it. When law is a mechanism to...
being there in poetry
evolution is just the aggregation of mistakes that turn out to be beneficial until so many of them pile up at once and you have something new despite yourself make all of the mistakes, a...
keyword "nimble" title "goodnight earth" in misc. flash fiction
“Gramma,” Jasmine asked, “one more tonight?” “All right,” her grandma pretended to chide but was happy to oblige, “one more then your mom says you must sleep for school tomorrow.” “Oh-kaaay,” the...
what you don’t know can, of course, hurt you what you don’t know will still hurt like hell it will devastate you, it will ruin you but what you don’t know can only hurt you blessedly...
half-and-half in poetry
half the trick to making art is failing at everything else first backing yourself so far into the corner of unhireability so that you have to pour your whole life into art ...
ma3 in idea barrages
1.) Evolution is just the aggregation of mistakes that turn out to be beneficial until you have something new. Make all the mistakes. Sort out what works at the end. Work it out. Evolve. 2.) In t...
after the gold rush in poetry
here we are at the fall of Rome the gate-barbarians strictly our own privileged classes swelling with hate tearing us down with demands for more fences and an end to all gates beca...
oneupsmanship in poetry
god tried to kill me with dog piss three am stumbling toward the bathroom linoleum slicked with canine anxiety trying to set me up for the slow and lonely humiliating demise that would fit ...
the “freedom” of being single is the same kind of “freedom” your bones get to have when there’s no skin or muscle or sinew to hold them together they’re free but motionless dea...
ma2 in idea barrages
1.) 83% of the names of summer camps in bad comedies are essentially “Camp LazyRacistJoke”. 2.) When people say “oh, people in (oppressed group) just like to pretend they’re offended to get atten...
mayday in idea barrages
1.) How can I write the sweet little story I have half-finished on my laptop for Wednesday in this bitter rain, in this crumbling nation, in this unfocused lonely mournful mood? It sits there wai...
