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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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feb 8 in idea barrages
A parody of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” that’s like “LET’S REST, take off those tight shoes and… rest a few…” It is good to see that we can still come together as a a nation on Thanksgiving ...
feb 7 in idea barrages
The “power of positive thinking” is a confidence job, sold to you so you’ll sit around dreaming and wishing instead of getting in the way of powerful horrors. The Power of Pragmatic Action, tho...
feb 6 in idea barrages
There are no films starring Rob Schneider. Oh, there are films where he is the performer with the most screen time, for sure, but do not let us define down “star” like that. Which would be be...
prompt: settle, title: innocent dumb and lucky in misc. flash fiction
We pretended we were in a movie, that’s how innocent we were, how dumb. We walked up to the perimeter the teachers were holding away from the school then we moved in slow-motion away again. As if...
prompt: hug, title: muddling through in misc. flash fiction
“You may be able to hold your liquor,” the bartender said, “but your liquor isn’t ever gonna hold you. Might hold you back, I don’t know, that might be me undercutting my own business model, but ...
feb 5 in idea barrages
SPECULUM CABLE - JUST LIE BACK AND TAKE IT. The funny thing is how the Q-Anon theories about how “Trump can still win!” are almost exactly the same in form & tone as the tumblr “no no, th...
feb 4 in idea barrages
Yeah, I’m singing “Copa Cabana” about Parappa The Rapper. Proposition One: we all get to be one year younger because this year can’t count. Proposition Two: we all get to be ten years older b...
feb 3 in idea barrages
The magical thinking of New Age frauds and the magical thinking of the Trump/Q-Anon frauds are the same kind of wishful gibberish, transcending any kind of ideology, don’t be surprised when ove...
feb 2 in idea barrages
You wanna know what’d be a worst of both worlds situation? LinkedIn Park. The greatest decadence, the worst hubris of all, is the belief that you’re the good guy in perpetuity. That no matter...
feb 1 in idea barrages
Three hoarders having sex is a garage a trois. Surviving through the darkness, that’s the easy part, the real struggle is making sure the darkness doesn’t survive through you. “Mister Miste...
jan 31 in idea barrages
It’ll be great when Q-Anon realizes that Q is just cherished character actor John deLancie trolling the hell out of them. Every day, more Trump signs disappear. Oh, the people who paid for fo...
jan 30 in idea barrages
It is our paramount moral obligation as humans to ease each others’ suffering. Not to possess or achieve or control, not even to explore or learn or have fun, even though those last few are nic...
jan 29 in idea barrages
Where does the “pop-punk whine” voice come from? Why does every pop punk singer sound like a rich white teenager from Orange County TOTALLY angry that Mom made him work summers at Medieval Time...
jan 28 in idea barrages
Why do only the terrible days feel long? It’s never the great days, y’know, those fly by like a gnat’s fart in the breeze. The bad ones just drag. If this horror show surprised you, you have ...
prompt: bank, title: earthly remains in misc. flash fiction
“Clearly,” the lecturer pointed at the projection of the photograph, “it was a holy site for peoples’ of its time, though the fact there seems to have been two competing groups with differing rit...
jan 27 in idea barrages
If you can’t tell who’s shallow and who isn’t, that’s just poor depth perception. Sun Chips are the ultimate diet food because everyone can hear you opening the bag from three states away. Ha...
jan 26 in idea barrages
Humans, with our pinprick lifespans, have no greater blessing than doubt. Doubt allows us to change, to adapt, to endure, to empathize beyond our own experience, in other words, to love. Certai...
jan 25 in idea barrages
If you’re emotionally cheating on your lover with your backgammon partner, she or he is your sidegammon. A theory on how to put the Reeses’ Pieces together into a Reeses’ Whole could be expre...
jan 24 in idea barrages
Hamburglar is just the disappointing failson of the legendary rogue Beefthief. In the Grimace species, there is a decentralized nervous system with essentially four brain lobes, one in each a...
jan 23 in idea barrages
Nosferatu look down upon modern vampires, dismissing them as painfully new-fangeled. An alpha-build of a video game about Dr. Pimple Popper would be in early-abcess. It’s like RATATOUILLE b...
jan 22 in idea barrages
Sometimes a speech impediment is just an obstructed vowel. No, the worst wordplay possible would be “stuffed crotch pizza”. Fan fiction about Lucille Ricardo joining the police force called...
prompt: alchemy, title: half lives in misc. flash fiction
Everyone wants the easy way out and I’m no different. I have a ticket for tonight’s lottery, even though the odds are six-hundred-million-to-one. Someone has to win eventually, why not throw two ...
jan 21 in idea barrages
Wakko, Yakko and Dot never mention the forgotten third Warner brother, Malcolm-Jamal. Yes, I would write an entire story about Jesus as a super-spy just to get to the line “Manger is my middl...
jan 20 in idea barrages
Hate is just fear that thinks it can do something about itself. Love is just being so sad about being hurt by hate that you realize no one should ever feel as sad as you do. PAUL BLART 3: AMC...
jan 19 in idea barrages
The unpopular banana recycling law was eventually repeeled. The Confederacy poured so many of its resources into murdering humans to protect their ability to treat humans as property that Ame...
