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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sept 5 in idea barrages
If you think you’re being catfished but it turns out they’re actually the outlandish thing they said they were, I hope it’s called “dogfished”. It’d also be a great title for a story about a me...
sept 4 in idea barrages
A grasshopper with absinthe swapped in called a Creme Demented. If Lady and the Tramp had a date at a sub shop instead, we could’ve totally made a joke about them being so in love that they f...
sept 3 in idea barrages
Religion has all the good questions but nothing to back the answers up. Science has all the good answers but has a hell of a time applying them to the world in a way that’s humane. There is onl...
prompt: heart, title: whitman's sampler in misc. flash fiction
For a while before the COVID times, I worked in the one fancy-style coffeehouse within a wide radius, in a small farm-town along the Mohawk. I wasn’t great at the beautiful latte art part of it b...
sept 2 in idea barrages
A nude beach, shuttered for the plague, with a sign that says CLOTHED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. If Princess Bubblegum was made out of candy, does that mean that many ADVENTURE TIME plots revolved...
sept 1 in idea barrages
When I was a boy, my Dad was on city council. When he questioned why a town of 4500 spent so much on police, he was framed for selling liquor to a minor, charges only dropped when he promised n...
aug 31 in idea barrages
Chuck E Cheese never had a fortune teller character named “Medium Pepperoni” and that’s why they can’t afford to have animatronics anymore. Animal feed differs from farm to farm. Your silage ...
aug 30 in idea barrages
June 6th 1944, a world coalition of anti-fascists stormed Normandy’s shores, risking their lives against the guns’ roars, we can do it again, we have done it before. If nothing else, this pro...
the reason for the season in poetry
1. the reason the rich folk love the idea of Jesus so much is His magic did all of the work they don’t want to do, it’s too resource-intensive, it’s so very beneath their entitled notice all that...
aug 29 in idea barrages
Someday, whenever Ric Flair passes away, will his ghost go “Wooooo!” like every other ghost or will part of his eternal reward be escape from his catchphrase? I’m still disappointed that FULL...
aug 28 in idea barrages
If you combine three words with two & signs, that’s an ampersandwich. Everything going on in America right now, you’d think it was cursed because it was built on an ancient Native America...
albany and back in poetry
thirty miles of driving rain I’m only half-way home a stack of scratched CDs otherwise in here alone just mudflap splash and thunder cops won’t let you use the phone thirty miles of driving ra...
aug 27 in idea barrages
At this point, the best we can hope for is that when future civilizations/aliens pick through the ruins of our civilization and try to reconstruct our culture, they’ll confuse and conflate Forr...
aug 26 in idea barrages
The sign “NO HORSEPLAY IN THE POOL” meant their hopes for a summer production of Equus were pre-emptively dashed. It is not entirely out of the realm of possibility that there used to be a mo...
prompt "toes" title "so small the moon" in misc. flash fiction
Our neighbor Walter seemed born-old to me, of course, because I was three when I met him. He lived with his father who may as well have been Methuselah, gnomic, Yoda-like, smoking a pipe on that ...
aug 25 in idea barrages
I like trying to convince people that “Chachi” is some other country’s word for “vagina” so they thought the show was about a lesbian named Joanie. Now I just wanna write a parody of Day-Oh a...
aug 24 in idea barrages
In my sleep, these parody lyrics of Slip Slidin’ Away came to me: “I knew a man, he came from Gothamtown, he showed his passion off for justice in a war with clowns”. A mob forms in front of ...
aug 23 in idea barrages
You know, I don’t think Dave Grohl wants or needs Mr. T’s pity. In Britain, do they call large garages for trucks “lorry holes”? A newsletter for Disney fanatics should be called “The Walt ...
aug 22 in idea barrages
The problem with idealists is that unless they have their ideal, and immediately, they will tear down any progress for the sin of falling short of their goal. Ideals are wonderful for inspirati...
aug 21 in idea barrages
Freedom Patriots (TM) where are you with your make-you-feel-like-a-big-man murder sticks you’re so proud of, when police are attacking protestors in the streets? I thought you were all Don’t Tr...
aug 20 in idea barrages
Rome burns while Nero golfs. An Uptown Funk/Rammstein mash-up involving the line “Du hast? Hast damn.” I could not care less about some rich jerk piggybacking his billionaire space vanity p...
prompt: holler, title: places in-between in misc. flash fiction
Sophie would wander out, sometimes, to the holler in the countryside at the edge of town. It was the kind of place the old folks spoke of fondly, where she and her friends had run wild when they ...
aug 19 in idea barrages
How Hanna-Barbera hasn’t sold the idea of “Captain Craveman” to some fast food joint, I will never know. The tabletop RPG for roleplaying as a member of my family will be called Hoarders &...
aug 18 in idea barrages
How are we going to break it to the Spice Girls that what we want, what we really really want is for ALF to come back, in POG form? Your chiptune DJ name will be “Christopher Walkman”. The ...
double meanings in poetry
because you’re threading the needle of dreading the real but you’re threatened by weedles and those playing long-cons while you’re left there just waiting to up to...
