littlefallsmets ⋅ 45 ⋅
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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oct 19 in idea barrages
Every story’s a ghost story, if you’re willing to cut through the artifice and metaphor. Someone or some thing is gone and you’re haunted and you’re wailing out in hopes someone else is haunted...
the plan keeps coming up again in poetry
the secret algorithms behind the surface levels we’ve mistaken as free will the subtle patterns weaved into the dance of an electron shell the scatter patterns of refracted light the decisions...
oct 18 in idea barrages
You know, you could make a hell of a lot of money selling Lovecraft-themed marijuana stuff. “Ain’t nothin’ more dank than smokin’ Chthonic”. More terrible-but-interesting ideas: the noir-musi...
oct 17 in idea barrages
When you consider that “Fe” is the atomic symbol for iron, Ironman totally could’ve called himself FeMale. I mean, yes, sometimes you just sing the lyrics to Space Cowboy over Fiona Apple’s C...
oct 16 in idea barrages
An instance of cannibalism in Turkey would be great for a “Donner kebab” joke. When one publicly admits to fetish wear, are they “coming out of the corset”? I’d certainly eat at a barbecue ...
prompt: space, title: space and time in "the next big thing" flash fiction
Fascination almost always starts out as fear, a fear that is eventually overcome while that focus lingers on. It’s a feature that seems to come standard with any level of sentience, human, animal...
oct 15 in idea barrages
Everyone overlooks their less-well-known neighbors, Carlsadequate Caverns. If someone yells “IT’S ADAM AND EVE, NOT ADAM AND STEVE!” yell back at them “IT’S BEN AND JERRY, NOT JEN AND BARRY!”...
oct 14 in idea barrages
If you read all of your own personal problems into the movies you watch, whether or not they actually resonate, are you a film projector? The reclusive toy car magnate, Willy Tonka. Conside...
oct 13 in idea barrages
When you sign a predatory student loan at 17 you’re supposed to see through the consequences of your actions, but when you’re a 35 year old dentist who broke into the Capitol to try & murde...
oct 12 in idea barrages
45 scarves is a “Stevie Nicks” worth of scarves. Rejected R.E.M. tracks like “What’s The Median, Stephen?” and “What’s The Mode, Gerard?” That’s a real Gerard Depardon’t. A Soundgarden so...
in the winter, the earth scabs over white blood cells bundled up coating the wounds inflicted from three long seasons of birth and death strife and storms rot and germination the earth...
oct 11 in idea barrages
A Christmas version of IRON CHEF hosted by Santa Claus and at the beginning, he yells “JOLLY CUISINE!” Halloween parody of “Golddigger” called “Gravedigger”. CARTOON ALL STARS was and is st...
my heart is a space made to push from place to place throbbing and pushing, contrived too scared to live too scared to die too scarred to be sacred too scarred to forgive ...
oct 10 in idea barrages
The part of the brain that remembers 90s one-hit wonders is called The Lisa Lobe. The weirdest Pokémon of all would be Giglipuff. I feel like it’d be fun to convince someone that “finsta” w...
oct 9 in idea barrages
Updating the cataloguing for the reference section of the library where I work, I realized at last what people did before facebook: extensive exhaustive family genealogies. As a person who su...
oct 8 in idea barrages
I think if you wanted to come up with the worst aesthetic ever, “the bastard child of Ed Hardy and Lisa Frank” would be a good place to start. Do the neo-fascists know that whenever we see th...
oct 7 in idea barrages
Does Oscar The Grouch refer to a one-night-stand as a “grump-and-dump”? Some lessons about British history are literally Tutorials. A candy tie-in to the new DUNE movie: “Many Great Sweets ...
oct 6 in idea barrages
PAUL BLART MALL COP 3: ACHY-BREAKY BLART A cut of vegan meat substitute called “beef pretenderloin”. Whenever someone’s complaining about Big Pharma, pretend you think they’re saying “Big F...
oct 5 in idea barrages
Rival emos battle each other in sadiatorial combat. You will perform mediocre neo-Celtic rock tripe but at least it will all the lyrics be about Bill Murray films. You will carve out a cult n...
prompt: empty, title: after ever after in misc. flash fiction
“Is this place hallowed,” asked the cleric, canvassing what remained after the awful battle, “or is it merely hollowed-out?” “I don’t follow,” replied the bard, his only friend who had survived t...
oct 4 in idea barrages
A southern-rock alternative to the R&B/Soul of the California Raisins called “The Almond Brothers”. People thought ODB was singing all nasty about sex when, really, he just really loved s...
oct 3 in idea barrages
On one hand, of course we should make fun of Nickelback. They are bad and they should feel bad. On the other, it’s weird to focus all the scorn JUST on them. Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, the...
oct 2 in idea barrages
Yes, a normal spider is disturbing, but imagine a DADDY LUNG LEGS. Just… lungin’ around all lungy. A square slice of cheap pizza is a cesarean section. Why say “plagurism” when you can say ...
oct 1 in idea barrages
A hot dog stand review site called “frank.li”. I wasn’t being sarcastic when I said “oh, he’s still alive, good for him” when I saw that the guy who played Carlton on Fresh Prince is apparent...
sept 30 in idea barrages
My knowledge base is ultimately a lot like a Kardashian: annoyingly shallow yet pleasingly wide. Success is fleeting and rare but in failure? In failure, baby, we are all united. Where woul...
