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 22 of 206
wrestling with shadows in poetry
back in the Negro Leagues in the Twenties and Thirties this was way before aerobics this was way before Jane Fonda they’d warm up by playing ball without any equipment at all with bats that weren...
let's play in poetry
there is organized semi-pro baseball up near the Arctic Circle in Alaska a summer college league in that briefest of summers they get and there’s a doubleheader there on the one day of endless su...
left to (tinker to evers to) chance in poetry
baseball is only boring if the only way you can ever enjoy it is in anticipation of a championship in the majors, there are like thirty teams and by the time you read this, there’ll be fifty-seve...
n 21 in idea barrages
You can start the finest Italian restaurant in Liverpool, England and call it “Penne Lane”. No one can stop you. Life is often brutal and always short and arbitrary, you make up your meaning. D...
n 19 in idea barrages
America’s “Tin Man” except it’s about the Thimble Theatre comic strip. “OH POPEYE DIDN’T HAVE NOTHING FOR THE SEA HAG THAT SHE DIDN’T, DIDN’T ALREADY HAVE”. Last minute costume idea: Blonde b...
prompt: screen, title: The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me in "the next big thing" flash fiction
“So,” Frank asked the Amazing Mitzi, sitting in a Starbucks between a Hooters and Disney’s El Capitan Theatre, across from Mann’s Chinese, “what makes you so certain that your god exists?” “The G...
n 17 in idea barrages
There is a slot on the side of a building. If you press a button, a sundae is pushed out of the slot for you and a voice yells “NOW LEAVE.” This is called an ice-cream anti-social. Socially n...
n 15 in idea barrages
I am just putting on a plaid patterned shirt and if anyone asks, this is my costume, “Smallville Clark Kent If He Kinda Let Himself Go”. I feel like we could mash up Cake’s Going The Distance...
d&d character concept in life stuff and misc.
THE CHARACTER IN ROLEPLAY Stefan “Tev” Zeznic (a corruption of the Slovene for “celebrity” to fit his family and the Eastern European world flavor) comes from a family celebrated for generations ...
n 13 in idea barrages
If the plural of “octopus” is “octopi” then logically the plural of “Jesus” is “Jesi”. People wonder what happened to Jon’s roommate Lyman from Garfield but now it can be told, he’s being hel...
n 11 in idea barrages
A vampire of short stature called Gnome Chompski. That “Wake Me Up” song by Evanescence but with the lyrics from A-Ha’s “Take On Me”. “TAKE ON ME! ya da ya da ya TAKE ME ON! ya da ya da ya” ...
prompt: wage, title: the never-ending siege in misc. flash fiction
They’ve lived up there, in those hills, behind their high walls, behind their reinforcements, for as long as anyone can remember. The armed patrols at their periphery, the armored truck deliverie...
n 9 in idea barrages
Why say “pasta magnate” when you can say “penne royalty”? An adaptation of the King Solomon story called “To Halve And To Hold”. Trying to drive in a sleet storm is an obstruction of just i...
n 7 in idea barrages
The world is so bonkers, you can be sitting in a pharmacy waiting for a vaccination & someone will walk up to you & try to talk you out of it, just to validate their worldview. Like, if...
n 5 in idea barrages
I hope your significant other says your name the same way Youtube Preppers say “kit” and “system”. “It appears that Victor’s flesh golem is a mute.” “That,” Van Helsing replied, “goes without...
n 3 in idea barrages
The liquor store whose lotto was always down, gone now, only vulgar doodles in its window dust left as epitaph. There is a seemingly closed auto shop near the Mohawk/Ilion line called “Frank’...
prompt: must, title: when not being stupid is not enough in misc. flash fiction
It used to mean something to be pretty-good at something. It really did. To be a three-sport high school star, a county beauty queen, to be in the best band in your valley. It often meant a life ...
your lucky day in poetry
he bought his lotto tickets there sometimes because he thought the place was lucky he thought that it was lucky sometimes because it was quite near where the one he felt had got away gr...
n 1 in idea barrages
SWEATY TODD: THE DEMON PERSONAL TRAINER OF FLEET STREET I mean, someone must’ve written a story about a vampire private investigator called STAKE OUT or at least a cattle-rustling noir called...
garde l'eau in poetry
form a line and line the forms it’s summertime, the sky is warm where’s the harm, don’t mind the storm the weather’s fine as long as you ignore those falling dogs and cats fi...
o 30 in idea barrages
A white guy rapper named Two Podcasts For Sure. He definitely has at least two podcasts. There are not enough artistic interpretations of The Hamburglar as a raccoon creature. Sell regular ...
cartoon logic in poetry
when the revolution comes for Richie Rich he’ll hide in a vault like a little bitch even that lucky fuck Uncle Scrooge McDuck will put up a fight with his blunderbuss but birth to privilege a...
o 28 in idea barrages
Difficult to not look back on my life as an almost endless string of amazing opportunities I botched through indecision or fear of hurting others to get what I want. But every new day’s a new c...
prompt: close, title: a whole new world in misc. flash fiction
She wouldn’t mind it so much, if it wasn’t for the damn birds. Some would call it a blessing, she came to know it as a curse, but all in all, it wouldn’t have been so bad if not for the birds. Sh...
o 26 in idea barrages
Last night’s nightmare involved having to take the Math regents as an adult while a virus that scrambled peoples’ emotional responses was tearing through the community. You ask “Mike, why don’t...
