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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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oct 14 in idea barrages
Are people who seem to jump out of planes straight into your DMs “parasocials”? There’s a weird legislated nostalgia for Blockbuster as “the best video store” but unless you wanted the newes...
oct 12 in idea barrages
I hope Princess Peach and Mario Mario name their daughter Amelia Mario so that people can point at her and be like “It’s Am-y… Mario.” I demand that when Bon Jovi does a farewell tour, he cal...
prompt: current, title: currency exchange rates in misc. flash fiction
In most ways, it’s best to be diminished like this. Insubstantial. Little-known, even to academics. No worshippers at all. The height of godly powers, gorging on your adulations and supplications...
octo10 in idea barrages
Imagine if they made THE BIG CHILL today. Imagine how awful the digitally de-aged flash backs to college would’ve looked, how unnecessary they would’ve been to the plot but some producer who di...
octo8 in idea barrages
I also love how some fancy food sound like old timey insults from the 1920s. “YOU TRUFFLED FLATBREAD!” “YOU BLANCHED FIDDLEHEAD!” “YOUR MOTHER’S A PICKLED RAMP!” There is an alternate reality...
octo6 in idea barrages
At a low enough resolution, Mickey Mouse and Princess Leia are eerily similar. If you wanna build a Mary Chapin that lasts, don’t DIY that project, hire a trained and bonded Mary Chapin carpe...
prompt: copy, title: one step forward, two steps back in misc. flash fiction
“Look,” the administrator said, sitting in the desk hovering above him, her authoritative pantsuit brought neatly together by a slender purple neck-tie, “you came to us well-regarded, MXY-944.” “...
octo 4 in idea barrages
A parody of Crazy Town’s “Butterfly” (you know, the come my lady, come come my lady) about John Mulaney. John Mulaney, John John Mulaney. The best name for a “pick-up-artist” (if those odious...
somebody once in poetry
now that the guy from Smashmouth has sadly shuffled this mortal coil I wonder who gets custody of Guy Fieri? is it Nickelback? do you think that it’s Nickelback? Scott Cr...
rubbing it in in poetry
Is there any grosser name for a cosmetic than “body butter”? It’s basically one shade less gross than “foot sauce”. QVC will be hawking “skin juice” any day now. Bath and Body Works selli...
sept30 in idea barrages
If you’ve hurt yourself while dancing in the club, you may be eligible for twerkers compensation. “Beans beans the musical fruit”? You mean, lentil illness? Bird is drone, turtle is roomba...
down to our last in poetry
we don’t need anymore gods or goddesses of war or violence or victory those things are done they’re out of style they’ve ruined too much of this place we don’t need gods of comm...
prompt: mistake, title: history depletes itself in misc. flash fiction
I’m often disturbed by the knowledge the internet provides me with about the worst parts of the sickest human brains. Reddit basement-incels apparently waste their life-times dreaming of the Roma...
sept 28 in idea barrages
So many rednecks throwing in with Russia these days, in hopes Eastern European Daddy will repress American minority groups for them, pretty soon “Hootenannies” are gonna be called “Putinannies”...
submitted for your approval in poetry
sometimes I wonder if someone maybe myself maybe someone else some tail-end Generation X-er if one of us were granted a wish we didn’t know it but we got a wish and not knowing the power we he...
electric dreams in poetry
every science-fiction thing seems to push the idea that we need to be afraid of the robots taking over terminator movies - robots taking over matrix movies - robots taking over...
sep26 in idea barrages
All sex is causal sex, if you’re time traveling. Celine Dion covers as metal songs and you call yourselves “Celine Dio”. It isn’t about doing what makes you feel better, it’s about doing th...
sep24 in idea barrages
“I had no idea that a man who would go on a reality television show to purchase a mail order bride could turn out to be a narcissistic jackass!” Man, if these things weren’t 115% fake, I would ...
unlike a virgin in poetry
I wonder if Madonna manages to keep up her legendarily-terrible fake British accent even in the middle of coitus “oh, oh, call me Mummy, call me your Mummy, guv’nah!” “yes, ye...
prompt: pending, title: second person singular in misc. flash fiction
We’ll cut to the chase: we’re sorry to inform you that you’re dead. You’ve been dead for a while now. We’re not certain how long exactly but we’d love your assistance in figuring that out. Once y...
sept22 in idea barrages
I MAY have gotten a line on purchasing the sign for the abandoned porn store out on the highway out of town, because I saw them tearing it down, and I’m just saying I’m probably the most awesom...
sept20 in idea barrages
You know though, if the Trojans HAD looked a gift horse in the mouth… It’s a shame how many people would appreciate overlaying the lyrics to Thela Hun Ginjeet over the tune of Eleanor Rigby, ...
jefferson hill and back in poetry
I walk a little blind dog for about a block and a half the one way then the same back and he pisses just about every five yards or so he marks his territory he doesn’t know that the...
sept18 in idea barrages
Morgan Freeman’s character in ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES was named Azeem. #TheMoorYouKnow Often, super hero films are forced into dark gritty mode, not because that’s what works for the s...
sep 16 in idea barrages
Developing your writing is like building furniture on a deserted island. Before you can even have the tools to construct a bed, you have to make the simple tools you’ll use to create the more c...
