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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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apr13 in idea barrages
Nightmares? Oh yeah, they’re terrible. They’re awful but they don’t last. They suck but they pass. Dreams, those are the ones that’ll get you. Dreams stick to your bones, reminding you they are...
prompt: refuge, title: preserves in misc. flash fiction
The notion of a wild-life refuge is wonderful, of course. Humans have managed to really bung up large swaths of this planet, chasing slips of paper that don’t mean anything outside the context of...
apr11 in idea barrages
A junior-fiction mystery novel called ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MATLOCK. Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Time may change me but I can’t trace time. Omnia mutantur, nihil interit...
apr9 in idea barrages
Turning the furnace up to 80? That’s just heatinistic. The next morning, after a night of beer-goggles, that’s when you see the truth through the beer-view mirror. A Linkin Park “One Step C...
friday's to-do list in poetry
1.) drop off uncle’s bike at the town pornographer for start-of-spring repairs (the town pornographer is also the town bicycle mechanic. small towns gotta double up.) 2.) order (on-line) ti...
apr 7 in idea barrages
A film about an exclusive equestrian stables outside of Austin called “The Best Little Horse House In Texas”. I hate how people think you mean that Goatse song when you say “Somebody That I U...
prompt: clock, title: blessings, counted in misc. flash fiction
Long before you were even born, when he was barely a teenager himself, your father stumbled simultaneously into the best and worst luck in human history. There was a group of older toughs harassi...
april 5 in idea barrages
A TMBG parody about Barnacle Boy still being a superhero sidekick, even in his sixties, called “Barnacle Man”. January 10th, it’s already Easter in the Stewarts. Poor Thanksgiving and Valenti...
apr 3 in idea barrages
98% of the people that people say are “on the streets” because of bail reform actually should’ve been in a mental health facility years before crime one, but Reagan dismantled the hospitals to ...
april 1 in idea barrages
I’m just enough both a butt-end Gen Xer and a nerd about religious history to wanna name something “The Council of Trent Reznor”. Horror themed restaurants are all about the zombiance. A th...
If we were being optimistic, we could say America is defined by its vast natural beauty, purpled mountains majesty, amber waves of grain, redwood forests, Gulf Stream waters, all that maudlin mus...
mar 29 in idea barrages
What we absolutely don’t need is a ventriloquist puppet with a huge posterior going viral on Tiktok with the name “Thicc Dummy”. 3 AM asks as it always does “How much in your life have you sc...
mar 27 in idea barrages
I feel like the best name for a children’s show teaching English-speaking kids the Spanish language would be “Vitamin Si!” I love when there’s a story about an actor “willing” to go back to a...
mar 25 in idea barrages
I enjoy embracing complexity, paradox, the internal contradictions of humanity as we the each of us contain legions. I revel in the fact that we are never just one thing or the other, there is ...
mar 23 in idea barrages
Some people hold grudges so long, they’re practically dry-aged, that’s how old the beef is. I have now realized that the optimal parody of Bob Dylan’s “Mississippi” would be about the Superma...
prompt: dolly, title: negotiating for the final cut in misc. flash fiction
“I’ve done your hair and makeup for a decade,” her tone wavered between bemusement and fear, “I would’ve noticed by now if you were a vampire.” “Because of the mirrors thing?” the rail-thin palli...
mar 21 in idea barrages
A joke one of my dreams last night wrote -“At my school, we didn’t have Proms or Homecoming Dances, but we did have something similar we call Ligmas.” “Ligmas?” “You know, Ligma Balls.” “…sir, ...
mar 19 in idea barrages
Before his fall to the dark side, was Anakin Skywalker “The Battle Himbo of the Republic”? It’s easy. The subtitle of the second film in every series should legally be ELECTRIC BOOGALOO, the ...
prompt: rank, title: all the king's horses in misc. flash fiction
He wasn’t always like this. He’d been a middle-class careerist, a suburban dad and husband. The manicured lawn, picket fence, two-car garage, the whole schmear. The good life. He wasn’t rich or p...
mar 15 in idea barrages
Don’t you worry about me staying hydrated. Coffee is, like, 99% water. He could be glam in a classy Bowie way or glam in a trashy RATT kinda way. He was glambidextrous. I hope in the deep l...
mar 13 in idea barrages
“Federal Breast Inspector” and “Certified Nursing Assistant” are pretty much the same thing from a… certain linguistic point of view. I refuse to believe any time was cut from Avatar 2. You d...
mar 11 in idea barrages
Cocoa Puffs, part of a mentally imbalanced breakfast! “As If Editorial Consultants: Service with a Simile!” A goth Marilyn Monroe burlesque dance / drag act / parody song called “Demons Are...
prompt: proof, title: when words fail in misc. flash fiction
Sarah and Rachel studied the rum cake together, fresh off its third overnight soak in a bath of boozed-up sauce. “Well,” Sarah asked, “do you think we did it right?” “We’ve baked a lot of cakes t...
mar 9 in idea barrages
I’ve come to the realization Reagan defunded the American mental health system, closing most in-patient mental health facilities, not to save money but rather to boost voting numbers for his po...
mar 7 in idea barrages
If you use a clay kiln to bake your rum cake into a flat-bread, that’s naan-alcoholic. All you really need to fuel a starship is to go into a drug store, buy a bunch of antioxidants and oxida...
