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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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jan 28 in idea barrages
THE SCRYING OF LOT 49 is a lot less complicated than THE CRYING OF LOT 49. She goes to a psychic who looks into a crystal ball and says “it’s a stamp collection”. Easy peasy. With Twitter on ...
jan 26 in idea barrages
Why say “STD” when you could say “affection infection”? A parody of the Ben Folds Five’s “Jackson Cannery” about battling a lich. “that vampire’s chasing me but I got his phylactery, whoa-oa,...
jan 24 in idea barrages
An all you can eat dumpling buffets invariably lead to wonton destruction. I don’t know what the “cyberchunk” aesthetic would look like but I think I’d like to invent it. I feel like if Har...
liminal tea in poetry
i am the leaves that crunch beneath my feet or at least I was or at least I will be i came from the earth below the leafy crunch and i’ll be going back someday i came from the gray sky a...
achilles, in his tent in poetry
patience is a virtue indecision is a vice to always know the difference wouldn’t it be nice
jan 22 in idea barrages
Will Garvey is a celebrated private detective but he’s really a front man for his super-intelligent talking cat Biscuits, who really solves all the crimes. They are BISCUITS AND GARVEY. If yo...
step, one two (lunch-break poem #1) in poetry
self-pity like whiskey for a dry-drunk if I allow myself one shot it won’t just be one shot like potato chips which I shouldn’t have either I can’t eat just one once I ...
jan 20 in idea barrages
Kicking it out to a wing for a risky three instead of going for an easy lay-up is known as the Dunk-Cost Fallacy. The glummest member of a Ren Faire troupe is called the “Theeyore”. If you ...
jan 18 in idea barrages
The downfall of the organization for recovering bra-and-jock-strap fetishists was sewn by the fact they allowed them to call it a “support group”. Why say “rest stop hooker” when you can say ...
ja 16 in idea barrages
Ollie the dog wouldn’t eat anything today until the dinner scraps came. He knows what’s up. He’s wily. He wanted the good stuff and he planned. I respect that weird fuzzy little lump so much. ...
ja 14 in idea barrages
The most ridiculous thing about Elon Musk is that he really thinks he looks like a rebel fighting for his right to party, when he looks a lot more like a frat boy on dad’s yacht trying to frees...
prompt: charge, title: a very different life in misc. flash fiction
In a different life, and I mean in a very different life, the tale of his turn-around might have been inspirational, a small-but-touching arc from failure to redemption. One afternoon, he woke up...
ja 12 in idea barrages
In the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY’s porn parody, was the Groot analogue a tree-lady with a great ass who could only say “I AM GLUTES”? If not, come on, just ask me for the best ideas and give me a...
jan 10 in idea barrages
Do perfume testers have competitions to see who is the best in the world? Do they have Smelling Bees? Before you eat that Christmas cookie, look down to it and whisper “You’re about to take a...
jan 8 in idea barrages
In hopes of recruiting more students, the veterinary college is holding an open horse. Michael Crichton’s long-anticipated thought-lost final novel “Science Did An Oopsie”. If Hannah Montan...
jan 6 in idea barrages
I wonder how much it would cost to get Eminem to rap the lines “My name’s Barney Rubble and I’m here to say / I love Fruity Pebbles in a major way!” Why call it a “filet o fish sandwich” when...
prompt: resolve, title: whoopsie-doodles in misc. flash fiction
It wasn’t so much he woke up on the wrong side of the bed, we all do that time-to-time. It was which wrong side he awoke upon. He didn’t wake up on the right side or the left, he somehow woke up ...
j 4 in idea barrages
I think the way to offend the maximum amount of people at once would be to write a story about Jesus going to a 2,000 years ago wizarding school. There’s something disturbing in there for every...
j 2 in idea barrages
DECK THE HALLS as sung by Super Mario Brothers’ supporting anti-villain character Waluigi. we may all be merely the residue left behind after the creation of the poo from a certain point of ...
d 31 in idea barrages
For all the many sins of youtube, the worst is how they all say “Super Mario Bros” instead of “Super Mario Brothers”. “Bros” is one of the weirdest most awkward words in the language and it is ...
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...
