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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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june 11 in idea barrages
Seeing Jack White in a dream is a sign you are going to watch a Tim Burton movie in the near future. Wal-Mart has us so broke by putting all the small businesses that paid better out of busin...
june 10 in idea barrages
A parody of The Flaming Lips “She Don’t Use Jelly” based around the line “she was in quuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaarintine, quarantine!”? You will do angry punk covers of classic rock staples as THE RO...
prompt: twilight, title: arrivederci roma in misc. flash fiction
The cliché is “Rome wasn’t built in a day” but what that chestnut neglects to say is that Rome didn’t fall in just one day, either. At its height, it’d become so vast and all-encompassing that th...
june 9 in idea barrages
I want to show up at a party where I was supposed to bring snacks, claim that I am the snack and then sheepishly go out to the car and get the snacks when no one agrees with me. I still can’t...
june 8 in idea barrages
A great name for a punk band? Hell-Ron Ubbard. Give to the World Health Organization, saving lives, while Trump cuts off funds to life-saving organizations out of petty spite, calls for civi...
skipped beats in poetry
there was snow deep into May this year of twenty-twenty hindsightings sickness and death hung over all of our heads like white-out squalls and blinding ou...
june 7 in idea barrages
I just realized that Mr. T is powered by self-pity and the T stands for “Tomfoolery”. The mediocre hamburger chain Fuddruckers is trending on Twitter and all I can think of is Trent Reznor sc...
june 6 in idea barrages
The realization that I am adapting easily to wearing a mask in public because I have worn a full face sleep apnea rig to bed every night since my early 30s.... that is a weird realization. An...
lost in translation in poetry
not understanding German speaking only English and fragments of French and Spanish I cannot say for it either way however these days I have some around to wondering if Hitler was actually ...
june 5 in idea barrages
Another good name for a band? “Mahatma Gumby”. I wanna read a story about French philosophers that happen to be dried fruit called LE CALIFORNIA RAISONS. Walkin’ around with toilet paper on...
june 4 in idea barrages
Mask over both the nose and mouth, people. Remember the face mask rule “If you don’t look like the Shredder, you’re going to be deader.” Without life, there is no liberty or pursuit of happin...
june 3 in idea barrages
At a certain point, if we ever get to the other side of this, it will need to be The Time Of The Do-Overs. To grant them to other people, sure, but for God’s sake, to ourselves. We will need to...
june 2 in idea barrages
Alex Trebek over-pronounces “SOPH-O-MORE” like he is trying to chew through drywall while saying it. Despite a decade of college and internships, gynecologists and proctologists leave school ...
june 1 in idea barrages
Just because someone else refuses to accept your shared humanity doesn’t give you the right to do the same. Your commission to be humane is not thusly discharged. Violence only begets violence....
may 31 in idea barrages
She suggests that the solution to world hunger is to kill and eat every pop star other than her in Taylor Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Before it hatched, the Maltese Falcon was an egg maguffin....
may 30 in idea barrages
Rhea Pearlman was produced by forcing Rhea Oysterman to ingest grit and then waiting patiently. Yes but where are all the soft-boiled crime dramas? A leggy dame saunters into a detective’s of...
may 29 in idea barrages
Did the YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN musical have a “Do You Want To Build A Showman”? number? Maybe Herb didn’t eat a Whopper because they were herbicidal. The fraternity barely got a slap on the wri...
theme "creep" title "the treachery of images" in misc. flash fiction
Bruce Springsteen was born Bryce Sherrinford the Fourth, of the Kennebunkport Sherrinfords, graduated Yale, rumored to have been Skull and Bones president his senior year and only took on the wor...
prompt: curtain, title: a final bow in misc. flash fiction
I was pulled from the earth by enslaved hands, in the beginning when I was just tufts of cotton, when all I wanted from life was to rise and spread seed, instead caught up with those men in the c...
may 28 in idea barrages
Rand Paul looks like the painting Elon Musk keeps in the attic to age for him. You down with no T.P.? YEAH YOU KNOW ME. You down with no T.P.? YEAH YOU KNOW ME. You down with no T.P.? CHECK T...
may 27 in idea barrages
I don’t know what would be in the cocktail “The Malty Falcon” I just know it’s a good name for one. The conservative movement sure love states rights when they take rights away from women and...
may 26 in idea barrages
You will cover television themes as death metal under the band name “Scooby Doom”. No, the weirdest pop-culture mash-up would be Taika Waluigi. You will cover goth music in the style of tin...
may 25 in idea barrages
Each gun bought thinking you’re making yourself safer makes the world more dangerous. Each violent threat you make against Power makes Power’s violent threats stronger & more justified. Bot...
may 24 in idea barrages
Step 1: purchase large amount of stick-on googly eyes. Step 2: whenever you see a Back to the Future related thing, paste them over Christopher Lloyd’s eyes. Step 3: wait. Step 4: every time so...
may 23 in idea barrages
When dolphins curse, it’s probably like “Ahhhhhhh SHARKS!” The Easter Bunuel, however, only leaves you surrealist dreams. If Arnold Schwarzenegger had shown up with an indecipherable gravel...
