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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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The problem with telling long-form stories is, to tell them well, they have to end. It’s easy to fall in love with characters, places and things, easy to want to know what happens on and on forev...
march 15 in idea barrages
I like to think that the first draft title of “We Didn’t Start The Fire” was “Blame Someone Else Not Us”. In a world ruled by Bedazzlers, one hero can stands against the rhinestone apocalyps...
march 13 in idea barrages
I mean, we could definitely do a parody of Takin’ Care of Business with the “makin’ bacon pancakes” meme. Of course we could. A mash-up of Rammstein and Uptown Funk revolving around the line ...
march 11 in idea barrages
If you’re gonna do a Canadian zombie movie, there is no better title than DEAD PENNER’S PLACE. If you slowly bring your green eggs and ham to temperature in a warm water bath over a twelve ho...
prompt: wander, title: the fix in "the next big thing" flash fiction
There was blood, because of course there was, the scientist was attempting a transfusion from Frank straight into his own veins. There was the shock-non-shock that sasquatch blood looks exactly t...
march 9 in idea barrages
Blackbeard sailin’ in the dead of night! Took that one good eye and went to sea! Everyone memes on how The Never Ending Story clearly had an ending, no one’s talking about how “Final” Fantasy...
empathy for the devil in poetry
you can look at the works of the writer Ayn Rand and only see the soullessness the monstrous frothings the bile and cruelty because of course they’re all there on those pages...
march 7 in idea barrages
I cannot say if a feature length parody of Citizen Kane about Chuck E Cheese, “CITIZEN CHEESE”, would save the world in these tenuous times or not. All I’m saying is I think it could be worth a...
prompt: steep, title: once upon a time in "the next big thing" flash fiction
Once, there was a man whose world fell apart around him. Not knowing what to do with himself, he did as so many do, he went west, the direction of change. Good changes, bad changes, change either...
march 5 in idea barrages
The only reason we’re not dealing with a PONG motion picture and a PONG cinematic universe is that the nostalgia cycles weren’t in sync to provide us with such an abomination. Okay, but how a...
prompt: "promise", title: "the fine print" in "the next big thing" flash fiction
Magic is not a trick, she told him, it is a promise. It isn’t about fooling someone else or fudging reality, it’s a pact that is made. “Both stage magic and actual magic,” she continued, “though ...
march 3 in idea barrages
It amazes me how many people subscribe to a faith where their deity was nailed to a tree and died painfully in sacrifice for them, yet they won’t even put on a mask or get a flu shot to help ot...
prompt: bill, title: the bill comes due in "the next big thing" flash fiction
“I’ve been wondering something,” I said as I swirled at my coffee’s dregs, “something kind of tangential to your story.” “Sure,” Frank said, “like I said, I’ve got all night.” “You’ve lived a ver...
mar 1 in idea barrages
We can all, at least, agree that the worst Disney porn parody would be SCHLONG OF THE SOUTH. singing “gonna be a DROW-BOY bay-bee, dual wield blades and you hate sun-shine, DROW-BOY bay-bee, ...
feb 27 in idea barrages
A fusion of King Crimson’s “Thela Hun Ginjeet” and Bauhaus “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” built around the chorus “BELA LU GOSI, BELA LU GOSI, I’VE HEARD HE’S DEAD, BELA LU GOOOOOSI” (we can even mix in ...
feb 25 in idea barrages
“If everyone’s important, no one is” is not the lesson to walk away from this life with. “If you’re important, everyone is”. That’s the key to this whole brief ride. HOT TAKE: I dislike Cinci...
feb 23 in idea barrages
The worst thing nostalgia does, of all its many horrors, is create a sense that since the past was so good, the best we can do is repeat it and, short of that, just give up on futures entirely....
feb 21 in idea barrages
A Twilight-esque reimagining of The Black Lagoon about a girl who falls in love with the son of a creature man. Create a writing persona who pens military thriller potboilers that are explici...
feb 19 in idea barrages
Only thing sillier than taking Razzies seriously is taking Oscars seriously. One’s an absurdist troll, the other’s a popularity contest where the privileged & the narcissistic vote on who’s...
feb 17 in idea barrages
I like to think that an ice pirate would be all like “Unshiver Me Timbers!” Every Lord Huron song sounds like it is from a late 90s Miramax trailer. Like, it starts with the Huron song and en...
feb 15 in idea barrages
You know what’d be a fun name for a horror movie? THE EMERGENCE BROADCASTING SYSTEM. I don’t know what the magazine BUTTER HOMES AND GORGONS would be about but I saw it in a dream and approve...
feb 13 in idea barrages
The rise of the zombies would be pretty interesting at, like, the circus cemetery. Twenty clowns all clawing up through the exact same grave. Soylent Hair Care is the human conditioner. I w...
feb 11 in idea barrages
There are worse ways to spend your day than trying to convince people that the song “Take The A-Train” was a coded message about doing butt stuff. Abbot and Costello but it’s The Hobbit and E...
prompt: flash, title: in a flash in misc. flash fiction
In a flash, you can bridge the impossibly-vast chasm between the lonely islands of two human minds, forging a connection there like a welder with a burst from their hot torch. BRZZPT. The connect...
I mean, I’m hardly the first person to notice something fundamentally uncanny at the intersection of Sunset and Gower, the Gower Gulch strip mall or Denny’s there. To the spot where the actual ra...
