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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.
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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...
april 16 in idea barrages
I still don’t get why they don’t counter-program against the college basketball playoffs with a Simpsons marathon called “Marge Madness”. There’s only, like, 35,000 half hour episodes of that s...
april 14 in idea barrages
Step 1: join a D&D campaign. Step 2: create a female variant-human war-domain cleric named “Saint Edna Vincent Melee”. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit. A group of people all exit the grocery s...
april 12 in idea barrages
If you’re often feeling blue at night, that could just be your Cerulean Rhythm. How have Timothee Chalamet and M. Night Shyamalan not collaborated yet? Maybe in a remake of Phenomenon. The...
april 10 in idea barrages
They’re making all the venial sins into mortal sins these days. It’s sinflation. Andrew Garfield presumes the existence of Andrew Odie. What is pregnancy but swelling in reaction to a nut a...
prompt: weep, title: not in my backyard in "the next big thing" flash fiction
Using a bus inside Los Angeles as a means of transportation is about as efficacious as putting a note inside a bottle then hurling it into the Pacific Ocean is in terms of means of communication....
april 8 in idea barrages
Ankles? More like ACHE-les, amiright? (Please, weather, make up your mind so my legs and back stop hurting.) Top Chef assumes the existence of Bottom Chef and that’d probably be a more intere...
april 6 in idea barrages
A running an inn in a roleplaying game universe simulator game called LUNCHEONS AND FLAGONS. Sizzler was just the city Ponderosa. In the end the closest thing we have to magic on this munda...
eventually in idea barrages
there is no lasting profit to cruelty no permanent gain involved in selfishness because the richest and most powerful humans to ever walk this earth, this well-ruined earth all, to a woman ...
april 4 in idea barrages
Jared Leto ruined method acting and I’m sorry but we now have to throw it out. Sorry, I know some people did good things with it but it’s ruined now and we have to move on. He could clearly s...
yeah, it’s snowin’ on Raton but we got things to do in Denver now that we’re both dead the time spent in Los Ang-elease like desperadoes ‘neath the eaves are gone and s...
april 2 in idea barrages
Why call them “drinking holidays” when you could so easily call them “blackout dates” instead? Medusa milk is required to create gorgonzola cheese. Sometimes my brain sings the old Sweet Pi...
“I healed,” Frank turned his right arm out toward me, parting through thick fur to show the marks that remained from the scientist’s rushed intravenous-port installation, pink skin underneath, kn...
march 31 in idea barrages
I hope Gary Busey doesn’t have a fursona but I hope that if he has one, it’s called Barry Goosey. I kind of want to mash-up “She Don’t Use Jelly” and “Mr. Tambourine Man” but I want to reserv...
march 29 in idea barrages
I choose believe that the line in “It’s My Life” is “like Frankenstein, I did it my way”. I think I heard someone on Youtube malaprop the phrase “tip of the iceberg” as “tit of the iceberg” a...
march 27 in idea barrages
If Freddy Kreuger is about to kill you and you call him “Fredward Scissorhands” before he does, I bet he’d at least respect that. I bet Tarantino once bought a whole pallet of Barefoot Wine a...
march 25 in idea barrages
Has anyone else seen that Spectrum ad where they styled the spokesman for some reason to look almost exactly like character actor/registered sex offender Jeffery Jones? Like, how do you do that...
prompt: whisper, title: spellbound in "the next big thing" flash fiction
If you give all the secrets away, there’s no trick. No one shows for the next engagement, no one pays to see it. Even if they can’t work it themselves, they know how it was done and convince them...
march 23 in idea barrages
I wanted to feel something for that Obi-Wan trailer, I really really did. But there’s just too much Star Wars, so many Star Wars, infinite Star Wars, I’m full up on Star Wars, I’m exhausted on ...
there used to be showhouses oh God, there were showhouses glittering temples to popular arts first built for the rich jackasses but quickly redeveloped for the masses less...
march 21 in idea barrages
Yes, gas prices up when you try to stop the dictator of a petro-state from invading his sovereign neighbors. If you want good things to happen, you have to make sacrifices. Like how if you want...
march 19 in idea barrages
I mean, I’m currently mashing up Sonic Youth’s “Bull In The Heather” and “Fortunate Son” in my head, I don’t know about you. Is WINGS the least-significant sitcom of significance? Right on th...
march 17 in idea barrages
He had forgotten throwing that boomerang but it was all coming back to him now. Are you your best self? I mean, probably not but we don’t need your best self. Your best self can go shove it, ...
