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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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theme: prospect, title: the best in misc. flash fiction
What if I told you this life, this life that you’re living right now, is the best life you ever could’ve lived? More to the point, what if I told you that you’re doing the most good you ever coul...
palliative care in poetry
a nation addicted to bad-faith outrage opiates subscribed by the A.M. talk-radio spin doctors now simply strung-out straight on the hard stuff black-tar Trumpism injected straight into ...
Without social media, how would we know if our old crushes are still attractive? How would our most favorite celebrities tell us what to be mad about this week? How would we get a minute-by-mi...
every day steal a single brick from out a needless wall every day put a brick into a bridge that needs building every day you’ve got a good shot at changing the world every day it’ll se...
oc2 in idea barrages
1.) Tomorrow, convince at least one person that “Bon Iver!” is how you say “good afternoon” in French. 2.) I either feel like Superman about to fly or the Coyote about to look down and realize he...
key word: testament, title: now you know in misc. flash fiction
You can always go back there, you know. To the place and time it feels like it all went wrong or, anyway, where it feels like it could’ve all gone right but didn’t. That moment you’ve dwelt upon ...
oc1 in idea barrages
1.) In the background of the HOLMES AND WATSON trailer, if you listen closely you can hear 75 studio executives writing e-mails, feverishly trying to get someone else to take the fall. 2.) Let’s ...
september capstone in idea barrages
1.) If one of our union-busting middle-class-killing gig-economy-scam scab-cab horror shows has to be called “Lyft” I hope there’s at least one in England called “Elyvtr”. 2.) The least likeable ...
se29 in idea barrages
1.) StayCircles seems to be the new LinkedIn of junk e-mail. 2.) Hot dogs may just be snouts and tails but at least they’re putting in an effort to make ends meat. 3.) Cathy Mitchell would stuff...
se28 in idea barrages
1.) Having white men in power to defend their racism and sexism means more than anything to these people, it is their only end game, there was never any other cogent ideology. They knew their Sup...
se27 in idea barrages
1.) Without social media, how would we know if our old crushes are still attractive? How could our favourite celebrities tell us what to be mad about? How would we get a minute-by-minute telling ...
se26 in idea barrages
1.) I am gonna be so happy when this false president all turns out to be an ARG publicity stunt to promote an iPhone VR game about an impossibly bad dystopian future. 2.) The problem is the born-...
se25 in idea barrages
1.) I can hear Morrissey, I can smell clove cigarettes but I don’t see anyone… it must be Invisigoths! 2.) You know, they probably could’ve gotten away with admitting Soylent Green was people if ...
se24 in idea barrages
1.) Maybe the future alien archeologists will not understand accents and think Alabama was ruled by giant sentient owls. 2.) Heaven will be a Dickens plot in Hemingway’s clipped journalistic styl...
se23 in idea barrages
1.) A lesser city would celebrate their team’s first win in over two years by setting some cars on fire. Cleveland will out-do them all and set fire to a river. 2.) “Flores shut down due to arthr...
key word: ashes, title: being there in misc. flash fiction
He sinned against every religion he knew, on a regular basis, just in case the end of the world was really coming. None of the big ethical ones, none of the ones that hurt other people. Just the ...
why they shine in poetry
the stars don’t shine for you no, they shine because of you they burn away out there in the cold night with or without you the light’s there either way but only meeting up with you...
too much barrage, too little time in idea barrages
1.) When you see an admitted serial sex-criminal push an attempted rapist onto the Supreme Court, tell me again how edgy you felt voting for a 3rd-party vanity candidate instead of the adult in t...
like an idea barrage but bigger in idea barrages
1.) Famous people hiring paparazzo to stalk the normals, trying to figure out what it’s like to be real, secret channels full of mundane-centric TMZs, the fake gods obsessed with us, the things t...
key word "holding" title "holding pattern" in misc. flash fiction
Great way to doom yourself to a shiftless art-bum’s fate is to get a film degree, so I got one of those. Great way to legally indemnify your art-bum life is to wait until the statute-of-limitatio...
se20 in idea barrages
1.) I am watching a rerun of a old terrible gameshow and “Macklemore” is an answer and it reminded me how long we have had to deal with the scourge of the Mackle. 2.) Ironically, having a heavy u...
se19 in idea barrages
1.) You know who shared a first name? Lot’s Wife and Jesse’s Girl. 2.) Sometimes you just sit around wondering “What would a mash-up of the kid’s cartoon ARTHUR and the Dudley Moore ARTHUR look l...
painting you a picture in poetry
I realized after pouring over years of math that the opposite of Donald Trump is Bob Ross he served honorably in the military he had lots of hair he was calming and beloved he was actually g...
se18 in idea barrages
1.) If someone says you’re over the hill, just say “That’s a pretty lucky hill, then” and wink. 2.) Of course the Republican party loves football. Where do you find people brain-damaged enough to...
the gospel of thomas the doubter in poetry
maybe but probably not you will witness no magic because that’s what you are an anti-magic avatar disspelling the fog of a blinded demiurge believing itself a god, itself the God weaving ...
