littlefallsmets ⋅ 45 ⋅
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
Entries 5,129
Page 21 of 206
prompt: please, title: assumed names in misc. flash fiction
I cannot speculate as to whether Robert Johnson had a deal with The Devil. Those extraordinary successes and spectacular failures who die young certainly seem to have done as such but there’s a d...
d 29 in idea barrages
A movie about time-travelers trying to fix a bunch of problems over a long weekend called CAUSAL FRIDAY. ASMR where I say soothing things to help you relax but not, oh, being a flirty doctor ...
d 27 in idea barrages
You don’t gotta be angry all the time. You could also be sad! Heart-crushed soul-drained sad. That’s also a valid response to… all this. Switching it up between the two could do you some good. ...
jesus day barrage in idea barrages
All the amazing things you can do or be as a human, imagine being so dull and empty, you think that the definition of being a hero is “has a lot of money”. That’s what people hero-worship? The ...
d 23 in idea barrages
A speed-dating event that’s also a potluck dinner called CASSEROLE ENCOUNTERS. Here’s something I say to myself before I perform, sometimes. “My words don’t speak for me, I speak for my words...
prompt: direction, title: a rolling stone gathers no tinsel in misc. flash fiction
The funny thing about Christmas is, even though it’s supposed to be joyous, its most popular stories are about regret. Whether you’re personally marking Christ’s birth or lamp oils, winter solsti...
d 21 in idea barrages
“Bitcoin for Dummies” is less a book title, more an awkwardly worded statement of fact. My favorite rap album about disaster prepping is, of course, “Tinderboxx (And The Ferrocerium Rod Below...
d 19 in idea barrages
I feel very protective of spoken-word-only open mics. Yes, poetry & music are intermingled & there’s nothing wrong with occasionally lapsing into song as a PART of your poem, as punctua...
the twelve days of videogaming christmas in life stuff and misc.
on the first day of Christmas some twitch simps sent to me a portrait of Waluigi on the second day of Christmas some twitch simps sent to me two power gloves and a portrait of Waluigi on the th...
d 17 in idea barrages
I’m not sure if it’s the BBC-preferred pluralization but “Doctors Who” just FEELS right. “Harbor Freight - It’s Junk That Will Crumble To Dust In Three Uses… But You Get A Free Plastic Flashl...
prompt: trail, title: maybe he's a mage in misc. flash fiction
Sure, Paul claimed they were simply having a wonderful Christmastime, but the facts just did not add up. I didn’t care he was a Beatle, that he was Sir Paul McCartney, that the man claiming this ...
d 15 in idea barrages
A sequel to “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” called “Santa Claus is Going to Town”. Why call it “lamaze classes” when you could call it “push notifications “? The weirdest Ben and Jerry’s ...
d 13 in idea barrages
The fact that there isn’t a punk band in Toronto called “Oi Canada” is yet another reason why I should be installed as World’s Namer Of Things. Hear me out: an amusement park built around an ...
d 11 in idea barrages
If someone is eating a sundae on Twitch and you send them money to do it, even though they don’t know you in any meaningful way, that right there is an ice cream para-social. BOSOM BUDDIES wa...
d 9 in idea barrages
Put Christmas bows on each side of your headphones. Congratulations! You now have Bows Headphones. What was Eminem thinking, rapping about spaghetti? Who did he think he was, Def Boyardee? ...
d 7 in idea barrages
A movie where you unmask a wrestler and the mask attaches to your face, forcing you uncontrollably into the life of a luchador called THE SANTOS CLAUSE. Look, this is probably a moment where ...
d 5 in idea barrages
Don’t “toxic positivity” yourself, either. You don’t gotta say you’re AMAZING or GREAT or ALPHA or GIRLBOSS, faking it until you make that will only disappoint you. That’s too much pressure. Yo...
d 3 in idea barrages
If all your show has going for it is the maguffin of its “mystery plot” or the question “will the two blandly attractive leads have sex?” it could well be a huge hit at the zeitgeist’s whim, at...
prompt: fast, title: ambulance blues in "the next big thing" flash fiction
FRANK THE SASQUATCH: But you have to admit, though, if you overlook the Curse of the Thirty Mile Zone, if you didn’t come here to get famous, Southern California’s gut-wrenching beautiful. Possib...
d 1 in idea barrages
The day you gain access to magic, every year after, that’s your mannaversary. If you are from a blended Hindu/Jewish family, I just want you to know, you could probably sing “Bhagavad Gita” t...
n 29 in idea barrages
If you wear really flashy clothes that are nearly worn out, that style is called “glamshackle”. There were originally a sensible amount of vowels in the term for someone from Utah, but the Mo...
n 27 in idea barrages
I hope the next big social media is honest and just calls itself “Skinner Box”. I would appreciate the candor. Less “Significantly Advanced Science Posing As Magic” More “Bizarrely Tweaked Ma...
n 25 in idea barrages
For years, I genuinely thought the Johnny Cougar lyric was “Life goes on long after the threat of living is gone” and maybe that says more about me than it does Johnny Cougar. The idea of old...
n 23 in idea barrages
Old is when you hear a song you hated when they played it 10,000 times on the radio when you were young and… you still hate it but you leave it on because you’re nostalgic for the feeling of ha...
autograph hounded in poetry
I want to get a baseball autographed by Paul Giamatti because his father was once the Commissioner of Major League Baseball then turn around and get the same ball autographed...
