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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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apr 16 in idea barrages
How does Seal not have a “Kiss From A Rosé” wine on the market? A D&D item that specifically enhances Bard spells called The Orb of Royerson. WANTED: THE JOKER. FOR THE CRIMES OF: PICKI...
roadside attractions in poetry
seven hundred and sixty five miles from here to the fireworks shop those vaguely racist billboards advertise down the ninety-five one thousand six hundred and five from here to the d...
a little bit in poetry
born an incidental heir to the goddess Eris accidentally dated mostly German and Irish length of life led to leaving me airless superstitious and cowardly and dareless lacking from ...
prompt: rain, title: may flowers in misc. flash fiction
Necessary errands of some kind or another drag you out into the world, near the beginning of the end of some terrible thing that’s nowhere near over but just close enough to an ending where you k...
apr 15 in idea barrages
“FedEx/UPS erotic fan-fiction?” “Ship it!” Your pain, your trauma, it didn’t make you who you are, not really. How you dealt with it, how you processed it, what you took from the process of h...
apr 14 in idea barrages
In the end, pop music is the astrology of entertainment, saying vague things about relationships & empowerment literally anyone of any birthdate or identity can identify with. Tofu to soak...
apr 13 in idea barrages
If the guy from Train had been cool, his liquor line wouldn’t have been Drops of Jupiter wine, it would’ve been Drops of Juniper gin, it’s just a smarter better pun but, then again, if he was c...
life lessens in poetry
life is the longest thing you’ll ever do life’s the shortest thing you’ll ever do life is the easiest thing you’ll ever do life is the hardest thing you’ll ever do life’s the weirdest ...
moving violations in poetry
love can move faster than the light love can be two places at the same time or three or five love knows its speed and its location simultaneously is unchanged by outside observation ...
april showers in poetry
the skeletons of long-abandoned above-ground vinyl swimming pools the bodegas and dollar stores where once your childhood pizzerias stood a car-struck possum by the roadside awaiting natu...
apr 12 in idea barrages
Truth is wonderful, justice is meaningful, love is glorious but they all mean nothing if you aren’t humane, aren’t kind. Every well-meaning impulse under the sun can be twisted into a corrupt b...
apr 11 in idea barrages
Bitten by both moss and fungus, by the light of the full moon, he transforms into a powerful but terrifying lichenthrope. Quentin Tarantino was very disappointed when he got to the store and ...
apr 10 in idea barrages
RON HOWARD VOICE: The Keurig Machine was not de-scaled. J’onn J’onzz except he takes a job in a fine-dining restaurant’s kitchen instead of as a detective and his superhero sobriquet is inste...
apr 9 in idea barrages
Love can move faster than light. Love can be in two places at once. Love knows its speed and location at the same time. It violates all the laws at once. Hate is bound to every little technical...
apr 8 in idea barrages
A final episode of BLUES CLUES where she leads you to the bodies of all her previous owners. The challenge of the mystery used to mean so much to her but now she’s tired. The compulsion to kill...
apr 7 in idea barrages
Is there a duller more generic more lacking-in-lore continuing franchise than Fast and the Furious’s… filmed sequences? You’d figure I’d pick something up more than “Meathead punch other meathe...
faith is something for other people not for me and that’s okay I know what I am I know how every time I’ve ever believed in something without a shadow of doubt I’ve become a zealot I ...
apr 6 in idea barrages
The dog isn’t poorly trained, he’s just… uh… an exposure-therapy dog. Anytime someone looks like they’re holding an invisible loaf of bread but they’re not literally pretending to hold a loaf...
apr 5 in idea barrages
Was the Princess Peach - King Koopa fusion fetish art thing that was briefly A Thing, was that a kaiju waifu? Eventually the Secret of NIHM was refined into their true goal, adorable rat chef...
apr 4 in idea barrages
The thing about Wandavision is, it’s accidentally the perfect show for our COVID times. The question: how much would you sacrifice for the illusion of normal? Kidnap a whole town? Kill people b...
apr 3 in idea barrages
A fart attack in D&D could be an owlbear’s bowel air. Probably, like, a constitution save. You know you’re on social media too much when you don’t know a single person on your “people you...
apr 2 in idea barrages
Fan-journalism is all the worst parts of fandom and journalism at once. If DRAG RACE doesn’t call its blooper reel TUCK FAILS with a kicky parody of the “Duck Tails” theme as its jingle, what...
apr 1 in idea barrages
You will cover 1960s psychedelic rock with 19th century instrumentation and arrangement under the name “Jefferson Steamboat”. Then there is his brother who sees everyone as a stereotype, Gary...
prompt: quiet, title: in the forest of the night in misc. flash fiction
He didn’t understand the phrase “peace and quiet” as if the two were somehow a set, somehow entangled, maybe even one and the same. To him, there was nothing peaceful about quiet at all, in the s...
a case of killer be kilt in misc. flash fiction
A CASE OF KILLER BE KILT “I need someone followed,” demanded a diminutive man in sensible slacks and utterly moderate shoes, his rage counterbalanced by that most rationalizing of influences, fea...
