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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fe8 in idea barrages
1.) Gertrudestein was the author, her baffling support of fascist governments was Gertrudestein’s monster. 2.) If you have to go to the electric chair, request the last meal of a bag of popcorn k...
fe7 in idea barrages
1.) It’s amazing they’re ending BIG BANG THEORY after 53 seasons. Did you know that nerds are fey and obsessive? Big Bang Theory taught us this for 107 years straight, first starting as the first...
fe6 in idea barrages
1.) There are very few people I would wish to burden with the terrifying complex nightmares I have when sick. Endless cycles of suffering and reality breaking down, only for the next level of rea...
fe5 in idea barrages
1.) The feminine of “Molemen” isn’t “Molewomen”, it is “Molelasses”. 2.) Joseph threatened to kick her out unless the father was God. “It’s Yahweh or the highway!” 3.) When the Super Bowl ends, ...
the winter up here is like getting a baby chick for Easter the first snow of November is like “OH IT’S SO TINY AND CUTE” but by February it’s this weird ugly thing that pecks at the w...
fe4 in idea barrages
1.) My current online journal (this one!) just turned 5, has over 3000 posts, over 1000 poem rough drafts (200 of which are decent) 150 song parodies (30 of which are decent) 100 short stories (2...
reality, a vinyl record spun so many times it hiccups pops and skips, scratches in the dips betraying the circuitous motion that it plays endless inadvertent repetitions, back to back ...
first night stand in poetry
the two best ways to first try stand-up are either (a.) in front of strangers you will never see again or (b.) in front of friends who won’t judge you if you’re terrible the first time ...
fe3 in idea barrages
1.) I don’t need tattoos or piercings, I have rejection letter paper cut scars on the inside, crosshatching a Mona Lisa inside my rib cage and nothing done to my outsides could ever hope to compa...
with or without you in poetry
if you believe in anything beyond this mayfly short life I’m not saying there isn’t or is don’t believe that you can worship it with pretty words or sacrifice or prayers let alone by having...
fe2 in idea barrages
1.) If you asked me “what band would the NFL get for the Super Bowl to be the most aggressively inoffensive non-political thing possible?” I would answer “Maroon 5 can’t still be a thing so, like...
prompt word: mellifluous, title: all apologies in misc. flash fiction
He’d been a rock star once. Not just a “famous musician” or a “celebrity” but an actual rock star. He’d played loud, he’d been young and brash and stood for things or, anyway, at least had tried ...
fe1 in idea barrages
1.) Your vegan baloney substitute will be called Phogna Bologna. 2.) If you ever need a new name for drag, may I suggest the term “femulation”? 3.) The corny joke centre of the brain is the mazo...
janu31 in idea barrages
1.) Don’t write what you know, write what you feel. When you only write what you know, you get caught up in the literality of your experience and start going over the same details over and again....
prompt word "friendship" title "imaginary friends" in misc. flash fiction
Sometimes, since my father’s passing, I can hear his advice in my head, I know what he’d tell me because he was a force of personality, because I knew him well, because he helped raise me. Like m...
janu30 in idea barrages
1.) If you regain your amateur status, did you pro-lapse? 2.) The problem with being a famous (whatever) is exactly that, that being famous is half the job and the thing that they actually do is ...
janu29 in idea barrages
1.) All that really separates us from the animals are the notion of recurrent debts, like car payments or student loans. Another point for the animals. 2.) Effort is only worth anything when what...
janu28 in idea barrages
1.) When the estate of Jonathan Larson approves a RENT-themed BBQ spice rub, I’m jumping in with “Seasonings of Love”. 2.) Your savory dinner-breads will be advertised with the slogan “Thyme… To ...
janu27 in idea barrages
1.) TARDIS underwear: “don’t worry, baby, it’s bigger on the inside” 2.) I finally realized where I recognized that “Gritty” mascot for the Philadephia hockey team from, he totally jumped out fro...
living in the future in poetry
passwords codeswitch dogwhistles whistle backs ten mega-bit encryptions wheaties rings could unload street slang confected on a lark made accidental real by the old loud speakers speaking...
janu26 in idea barrages
1.) I’m not “Dual-Wielding”, baby, I’m “Ambidangerous”. 2.) “A broken urinal,” he scoffed, “I won’t stand for this!” 3.) The muppets go to Sweden and find the chef can’t translate and upon resea...
yield, juggernaut in poetry
when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object both will yield when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object they annihilate each other when an unstoppable force meets ...
janu25 in idea barrages
1.) Hard-Of-Hearing Spider-Man lives by a single motto: something about grape flowers, his uncle was really into grape flowers. 2.) Aging is really just terrifyingly slow uncontrollable shapeshif...
janu24 in idea barrages
1.) An upscale version of “My Drunk Kitchen” called “Soused-Vide”. 2.) The low-key worst part of Hall of Fame balloting is that even obvious non-choices get to be on it their first year. Like som...
key word: smorgasbord, title: pax ad nauseum in misc. flash fiction
It was time to eat. I live off the residue of human emotion, I eat them (to use your words) and the stronger ones taste the most delicious but large waves of weak negative emotions are what reall...
