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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: 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...
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“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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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? ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
