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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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may 24 in idea barrages
If instead of 15 minutes of fame, everyone got three months of hip-hop stardom, we could have a show called “90-Day Beyonce”. I just came up with the most revolting phrase in the English lang...
The golem, the sasquatch, Frankenstein’s doctor, all these impossible monsters that should not exist, the washed-up jock and the rock stars past twenty-seven, the self-pitying failure, the holy w...
But you must also understand why the scientist was doing what he was doing. Taking a creature that wasn’t supposed to exist and yet existed, a creature that believed himself the last of his kind,...
Once upon a time, Bubbe Sara told Mitzi, as that’s how stories are done, there was a city called Prague. There’s still a Prague, not so different from how it is now but so long ago, nonetheless. ...
may 22 in idea barrages
Are there true-crime podcasts that cover fictional killers in-universe yet? Like two hipsters doing a deep-dive on what the general public would actually know about Michael Myers or Norman Bate...
prompt: sign, title: here and back in "the next big thing" flash fiction
The Amazing Mitzi’s hesitancy to use kabbalistic practice in flashy ways, in obvious fashions, in manners that might hold her to covenants she hadn’t the capacity to keep, was not a new thing in ...
may 20 in idea barrages
The prank war had escalated to the point where the farmer’s friend had replayed his hay bales with marijuana. There was no doubt about it now: the steaks were high. Probably the best idea I’v...
may 18 in idea barrages
At the GLAAD awards, is the celebrity swag bag a GLAAD bag? Today I learned, in an earlier version of Dungeons & Dragons, there was a spell called “Protection from Law” and I just think, ...
may 16 in idea barrages
When they change the actors playing Ronald MacDonald, that’s a McRegeneration. You know what would be worse than Yahoo Serious? His lascivious cousin, Yahoo Sensuous. But what is a wizard’s...
prompt: left, title: the ballad of sir gladhand in misc. flash fiction
Sir Gladhand had surely seen the world and, as he watched, the world had just as surely passed him by. He was a hero a dozen times over for whatever that mattered but lately it didn’t feel as tho...
may 14 in idea barrages
Here’s the title for the worst movie ever: WHEN FIERI MET SALLY. Do ghosts consider the whole bed-sheet costume thing an offensive stereotype? A group of Kryptonian criminals escape the Pha...
may 12 in idea barrages
CHARLIE DON’T SMURF. How was there not a mid 90s Ren and Stimpy rip-off on the off-hours of Cartoon Network called SOUR CREAM AND BUNION? It just FEELS like there would’ve been one. The onl...
may 10 in idea barrages
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! updated for the modern era: Ripley’s Don’t Need Your Validation! You know what would be a really weird video game that you could never get the IP rights to make? H...
may 8 in idea barrages
we have pets so we can pretend we’re not crazy people talking to ourselves now I wanna write a Beastie Boys parody in the character of the Beagle Boys from Duck Tales “Fast X” sounds like a...
may 6 in idea barrages
Put the “disco” into “disconcerting”! All about that bass, bout that bass, NO DIGGITY. The realization that just as April Fools is the worst day to prank because it’s ruined by the amateurs...
may 4 in idea barrages
Claiming that you cannot be prosecuted for a crime committed at the Outback Steakhouse because the sign says “no rules, just right” is LITERALLY more coherent a legal argument than anything bro...
may 2 in idea barrages
Imagine using the term “based” unironically. I kind of hope the Eastern Orthodox Church has a version of the Easter Bunny called The Eastern Bunny. He’d probably be about the same but he’d co...
april 30 in idea barrages
It’s the new foundational text on the topic of noodles, it’s a real manipesto. Sometimes I think about Hank Williams the 3rd, having to play split sets of the metal he loves with the country ...
april 28 in idea barrages
You could make a continuing podcast about how terrible the Star Wars prequels were & never run out of material. You would have to get more & more granular over the decades, sure, but th...
april 26 in idea barrages
Your band will now be named “Wario Argento”. Trust me, this is for the best. My favourite kind of unreliable narrator is the kind that THINKS they’re utterly reliable, BELIEVES they’re tellin...
april 24 in idea barrages
Garfield, hitch-hiking down a rural road with a guitar strapped to his back. A bumper sticker on his guitar case. It reads “This Machine Hates Mondays”. Those who see a partner who’s totally ...
april 22 in idea barrages
Cake Boss presumes an opposing force, a Cake Union, to save the humble Cakeman from the oppression of the Cakemachine. As foretold in the novel, THE CAKE JUNGLE. A snuggie but it has the text...
prompt: fish, title: all is fair in misc. flash fiction
“It’s a fool-proof plan,” she told her, “it’s a fool-proof plan and you know it. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.” Her sister looked at her askance, a brief silence punctuated by rifle exchan...
april 20 in idea barrages
Did the other ghosts consider Slimer to be a traitor to his kind, more or less peaceably living with the enemy? Did they develop slurs to throw at him? “Hey, skinlover, save some hot dogs for t...
april 18 in idea barrages
You know how you’re instantly skeptical of every headline on April 1st where only the lamest try to lie? Take that approach to social & regular media the other 364 & you’ll be ok. The O...
