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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nov 5 in idea barrages
I mean, maybe this IS my best life. Not rich, not famous, staying busy, doing good where I can for who I can, a sort of secular circuit rider trying to spread the word on loving yourself throug...
nov 4 in idea barrages
A collection of poems that are responses to rejection letters called Dejection Letters. It seems my interview last week went well and I am starting another part-time job tomorrow. I am a very...
keyword: vanity, title: Ecclesiastes 1-3 in "the next big thing" flash fiction
Frank broke with academic orthodoxy on the subject of skin-ape culture in many ways but most importantly on the question of whether humans were anything other than an evolutionary cul-de-sac, fea...
nov 3 in idea barrages
Ghost summoning is really just visitation rites. Yes, Columbus Day is racist as hell toward Native Americans but, as a minor side-bar, it’s also racist against Italian-Americans because they ...
nov 2 in idea barrages
Ah yes, throwing Namor the Submariner at the bad guys. The trident true approach. Your intentionally-mediocre Radiohead cover band will be called Adequate Computer. Usually, she uses a deep...
all hallows barrage in idea barrages
Sell a knock-off salad dressing called Randy Newman’s Own. Your talent baking rich eggy braided breads will land you in the challah fame. If anime superfans are called “weeaboos” are Ren Fe...
halloween barrage in idea barrages
An Alaskan rapper building a song around the line “I’M NOT A SLEDDER, I JUST MUSH A LOT!” Our lack of a horror movie called GOOD WILL HAUNTING concerns me. You always hear about outlaw coun...
keyword: hollow, title: the hollow man in misc. flash fiction
At first, I was ecstatic, I couldn’t believe that they picked me. I mean, I was nothing out of the ordinary, maybe a little bigger than the others but what in the hell could that count for? But f...
oct 30 in idea barrages
You will do bonkers psychedelic covers of classic country songs under the stage name “Hank Zappa”. The most Instagram food ever would be quinoa topped with edible glitter and called “Yas Quee...
oct 29 in idea barrages
The introduction of botox didn’t make headlines. If you save an ornate cabinet from the thrift store, is that a salvation armoire? The forest was destroyed due to poplar demand. Chocolate...
oct 28 in idea barrages
Dungeons and Dragons has a new wizard of Onomancy, the magic of true names, which is cool but I first read it as “Onanmancy” which would be… uh… a much more interesting way of conjuring. Your...
oct 27 in idea barrages
Why say “this hangover gave me diarrhea” when you can instead say “I have fecal alcohol syndrome”? The phrase “mental health professional” is weird, I dunno. As if there is anything wrong wit...
oct 26 in idea barrages
Maybe the REAL poorly-written sitcom fondly remembered only because people were sexually attracted to the cast was the FRIENDS we made along the way. Depressed Rorschach is all “YOU THINK I’M...
if I knew then what I know now I would make different decisions but I am still a person blinded by my hopes and all of my fears so I’m sure all those different decisions end up ju...
oct 25 in idea barrages
My mental state today: what are all those cars doing in front of that church? Oh. Right. Church. If you spiritually identify as a woman’s shoe, are you a pump-kin? I am the kind of nerd who...
(note: I just wrote a different version of this as a poem but “list” just fit the idea too perfectly) Just for once, Lifetime Channel, Hallmark Channel, when the overworked CEO comes home for Chr...
oct 24 in idea barrages
A sequel to THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN about their rebellious daughter who wants to be a werewolf THE PRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Your series about a culinary detective will be called The Roquefort...
oct 23 in idea barrages
Equestrians hate it when you call the stables “their horse house”. When the people who made Trump, who knew they were making Trump when they took their balls and went home after they didn’t c...
oct 22 in idea barrages
You would certainly get your ass sued to Mars and back if you named your craft whiskey bar “Field of Drams” but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea. The fault is not in the stars, it is in our te...
oct 21 in idea barrages
The way the silver packets would sometimes yield to the straw and sometimes repel it, at random, was entirely capricious but shortening it to Capri Sun was more marketable than Capricious Sun. ...
oct 20 in idea barrages
I mean, yeah, I just realized that you could mash up LONG BLACK VEIL and COUNTRY ROADS really well. Naming your business “Forever 21” is a good way to call down the gods of irony and force yo...
oct 19 in idea barrages
It’s October but don’t wake up Billy Joe Armstrong. If he wakes up, we might have to hear another Green Day album. Let him rest. Captain Picard’s weakness is pirates because he gets real sad ...
they could call it "Take Me Home, Country Roads" or something in poetry
just once, lifetime movie channel, when the powerful CEO comes home for Christmas or a wedding or Thanksgiving or God-knows-what and she magically falls back in love with the strapping far...
a step by step plan in poetry
Step 1: Be smart enough to know you’re stupid. Step 2: Be smart enough to know everyone else is stupid too. Step 3: Be smart enough to know that you and everyone else always has been...
oct 18 in idea barrages
When celebrating athletes drench each other in beers, is that brewkkake? I mean, yeah, I was singing to the tune of “Intergalactic Planetary” : “this Pokemon is legendary, legendary this Poke...
