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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: mint, title: nothing up his sleeve in "the next big thing" flash fiction
“About your coworker who busks as Elvis?” I asked, to change our subject from myself and my bottomless personal failings. “My friend Tony.” Frank corrected knowingly, “What about him?” “Did yo...
oct 16 in idea barrages
We have put Circuit City and Hooters into the malfunctioning teleporter and they have fused into something called “Breast Buy”. Why say “wet nurse” when you could say “succor mom”? A...
If you don’t actually know her, please, give her the respect of calling her “Pajama Harvey”. Nicknames are for friends. Still don’t know why they haven’t tried a “Sabrina The Middle-Aged...
oct 12 in idea barrages
She talked about Victorian chimneysweeps so much, people started wondering if she had a soot fetish. Why call your enlarging mist “Pym particles” when you could call it “magnifying gas”?...
prompt: space, title: light in a vacuum in "the next big thing" flash fiction
When Frank was the yeti equivalent of boy-hood and early teens, safely ensconced in the enclave of dense trees and subtle glamours he called home from birth, the fact he had anger issues wasn’t ...
oct 10 in idea barrages
She learned how to smoke from a nun and she’s been picking up bad habits ever since. Why say “Baba Yaga’s hut at rest” when you can say “house-sitting”? You never think the phrase “B...
oc 8 in idea barrages
Don’t beat yourself up that you bought the wrong ice cream, we all have experienced Breyer’s Remorse. A Ghostbusters / Scooby-Doo crossover where part of the magic is that when the Buste...
oc 6 in idea barrages
The other way to go with a parody of the Indigo Girls “Closer to Fine”, of course, is to make it about being closer to the Three Stooges’ Larry Fine. APPROXIMATORS! Roooooooound up! ...
oc 4 in idea barrages
Ask your writer how often they think about Times New Roman. A combination of proto-goth and early rap called “Whose Haus? Bauhaus”. The best Simpsons / Batman crossover would involve...
prompt: bark, title: history lessens in "the next big thing" flash fiction
Amongst Frank’s peoples, and in every other sasquatch culture he had ever heard of, there was a tradition more ancient than written language, more holy than any red-wood stand, the sacrament the...
oc 2 in idea barrages
I fear I have realized that my particular style of classic rock parodies with really obscure references, that its genre is called “classic mock”. Some day we’ll all be dead & no one ...
sept 30 in idea barrages
A great schism in guitar design was started by Martin Luthier. I love ads where they call one of the “side-effects” basically just… the pill not working and still having the symptoms. Li...
sept 28 in idea barrages
If everyone could just say “that isn’t my thing but I’m glad you like it” about things like the Taylor Swift movie, the world would be like 83% better instantly. INSTANTLY. Okay, you win...
to the tune of ZZ Top's LEGS in song parodies
she wants legs but she’s some kind of fish-thing oh how she begs she’s bargaining and wishing she wants some legs she thinks it’d be neat if they could end in… what do you call them… feet? she...
prompt: crush, title: orbits in decay in "the next big thing" flash fiction
“Well,” Frank reasoned, hoping to get me out from under my bottomless self-pity for a moment. “Look at it this way. At least you’re not Adam Sandler.” To someone who has never been in or in l...
sept 26 in idea barrages
You know what’d be a fun mash-up? “H.R. Gigerstuf”. In any line of DC Comics collectables, make the villain Gorilla Grodd the rarest, so that somewhere in the world you know someone will...
sept 25 in idea barrages
An astonishingly dumb romantic comedy about two opposing campaign managers falling in love called “Pollster Opposites”. A zombie-themed crime fighter who always introduces himself before...
sept 23 in idea barrages
What is the equal and opposite action to the Maillard reaction? Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s the basic of traditional British cookery. There is no possible reason to create a Buckcherry...
sept 21 in idea barrages
What is the equal and opposite action to the Maillard reaction? Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s the basic of traditional British cookery. There is no possible reason to create a Buckcherry...
prompt: walk, title: it's the wrong way in "the next big thing" flash fiction
Distance does funny things to your mind, to your experience of reality. There was this band, this perfectly-mediocre fine-in-the-background dumb-if-you-listen-closely white-boy funk jam band cal...
sept 19 in idea barrages
You walk back into the room. There is a fresh pile of clothes suddenly laying in the middle of the carpet. Either you are about to be seduced or a lightsabre battle just ended. Either is pre...
sept 17 in idea barrages
A version of “All Apologies” from the perspective of Moe from the Three Stooges, if only so that he can be screaming “LARRY!” over and over at the end. “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” not ...
sept 15 in idea barrages
Why say “venereal disease” when you can say “love-sickness”? Nintendo has lost so much money by being too prudish to market Legend of Zelda “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this!” condo...
sept 13 in idea barrages
Contractions often involve self-fulfilling apostrophes. A series of Halloween commercials for a bread and soup place starring Samuel L Jackson called “Snakes, Au Bon Pain”. An album ...
prompt: fight, title: up up and away in "the next big thing" flash fiction
One of Frank’s co-workers on the Walk of Fame, busking photos to wide-eyed tourists as well as hipsters trolling for cheap irony, was a guy they all called “Hollywood Superman”, for relatively o...
