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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: farewell, title: sensory deprivation in "the next big thing" flash fiction
One of the other upsides of Los Angeles, for all the bad things you can say about it, is the utter timelessness of living there. You can’t account for seasons in the way you can in other parts of...
prompt: wait, title: don't wait up in misc. flash fiction
The good news is that your last nervous breakdown could be your very last nervous breakdown. The bad news is that there’s a couple of different ways that scenario could actually unfold, good or i...
jan 4 in idea barrages
In your Early Middle Ages history class, you will have at least one chance for the bon mot “Picts or it didn’t happen!” Be on guard, be ready, your time will come. You can’t use Cap’n Crunch ...
jan 2 in idea barrages
Pirates used to eat in the gallery but they used up all the Rs and it became the galley. I feel like we went from double-bladed razors to eight-bladed razors at light speed, meanwhile we’ve b...
dec 30 in idea barrages
Oh, the abyss is going to stare back. It’s unavoidable from the start. The key is maybe, just maybe, you can make the abyss blink first. Have we considered that maybe Grandma also say Mommy k...
dec 28 in idea barrages
An ICP boy band spin-off called Boyzone The Clowns. to the tune of The First Noel “Kal-El, Kal-El, Kal-EL, KAAAAAL-EL, oh boy is that Superman really swell” “If it weren’t for executive dys...
dec 26 in idea barrages
“Do No Harm” is not enough. It’s a fine start but it is not enough. Mermaids and mermen use tridents. Demons and devils use tridents. Clearly, if you have a character who is half-infernal and...
dec 24 in idea barrages
Money makes one think they know everything. Fame makes one think they must yell it all from the rooftops. Not enough people in the backs of chariots telling people they’re not gods anymore thes...
dec 22 in idea barrages
An album of muzak-styled Radiohead covered called OK Commuter. Sometimes I think about how the Zodiac Killer really wasted a gimmick by not targeting the people who write horoscopes. There’...
prompt: gift, title: little miracles in "the next big thing" flash fiction
Not everything is awful about Los Angeles, I’m not saying that. I don’t want to say that. It’s just that every joy there has a dark side, the kind of deep shadows that can only be cast in the bla...
dec 20 in idea barrages
SONIC THE HEGEMONY It is of vital importance that you pretend to confuse Ernest and Forrest Gump at all possible times. Yoda sets his camera up on a quadpod because there is no tri. The M...
dec 18 in idea barrages
You put your dick in the coconut/thats pretty fucked up/just get yourself together/I say Doctor/how much more much we endure/I say Doctor/get this man the talking cure/he put his dick in the co...
dec 16 in idea barrages
The white plastic garbage bags look just like the bottoms of snowmen. Or maybe vice versa. You can never tell around here. There we go. There’s the sleep deprivation rush. There’s my brain si...
dec 14 in idea barrages
Yeah, I got drip. DRIP COFFEE. Just gettin’ some lawn adornments from the Gnome Depot, is all. If you want to show awful ads on that little screen with the tinny blown-out speakers when I’m...
prompt: sign, title: relative measures in "the next big thing" flash fiction
There are few phrases with a stronger one-two of power and malleability in our English than “the end of the world”. It means so damned much to so many but also a different thing to nearly every p...
dec 12 in idea barrages
Less purchases of muscle-cars at mid-life, more existential Chryslers! Relax! You’re getting a massage at The Spa of The Living Dead! Enjoy the zombiance! If her stage name is Charity, your...
john and jenny at five years old in poetry
gilgamesh he really tried his best but still enkidu stayed down in his early grave theseus he went straight to pieces but he still came on back twice into the waves icarus left be...
dec 10 in idea barrages
I want a Home Alone where Kevin is now a serial killer of neglectful parents and The Wet Bandits are offered time off their sentences if they help the FBI find him and bring him down. THE SILEN...
down on paper in poetry
simply a courier an errand boy merely messenger inside these emboldened new roman times of mild recline and wild decline and you have gotten yours and I too once almost had mine ...
prompt: hungry, title: jazz hands in "the next big thing" flash fiction
“I hate those The Secret books,” she told Frank more than once, “the idea that magic’s simple as projecting intentions then getting whatever you want, such a childish and hungry and greedy way of...
dec 8 in idea barrages
If you think about it, a Bollywood musical number about a cheating lover could devolve into a Frenchin’ Indian War. Jedis and Sith alike get the crystals for their laserswords on Kyber Monday...
dec 6 in idea barrages
I feel like if we start naming COVID strains to sound like rare Transformers figures, we’re going to end up with the internet WANTING to collect them all. He claimed he was beaten up by a mys...
the statue of theseus in poetry
how many times must we bust ourselves into pieces refilling the scars with gold like that japanese pottery until we are instead a perfect golden image of who we used to be and a...
dec 4 in idea barrages
Eminem rapping about the Spider-Man trailer: “And Doctor Strange says / NOTHING, YOU IDIOT / he’s with the villains he locked in the basement!” NEW RULE: You can only tell origin stories in t...
dec 2 in idea barrages
So DC Comics had a character with power to control rocks & dirt who was European royalty & they called him “Geo-Force” not “Landlord”? Do I have to think for everyone? Did they have a w...
