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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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keyword "connection" title "world wide woof" in misc. flash fiction
Sniffing is, of course, Dog Internet and that’s why they’re as addicted to it as we are to laptops and cellular, able to get by snuffling along low to the ground when there’s no other options but...
jl22 in idea barrages
1.) What James Gunn said was disgusting but is it as disgusting as the fact that the people calling him on it are supporters of a “president” who was having Russian agents silence teenage girls h...
jl21 in idea barrages
1.) As much as many of the individual events of San Diego Comic Con sound amazing and wonderful and fun, to actually wade into that heaving mass of human confusion and endless lines without the p...
jl20 in idea barrages
1.) I think adultswim should record a loop of John C Reilly singing mangled versions of Christmas songs interspersed with rambling digressions, animate his Doctor Steve character on fire, slowing...
jl19 in idea barrages
1.) A wizard trickster who only casts really-specific mostly-harmless curses, like making a person confuse “patella” with “paella”. 2.) In your reboot of Highlander for the millenial age, Connor ...
jl18 in idea barrages
1.) When is our American Spring? 2.) No one voted for Trump “for jobs” just like no one actually ate Tide Pods thinking they were candy. Some did it because they hated Hispanics, Muslims, Jews, g...
jl17 in idea barrages
1.) Why call them “nano-bots” when you could’ve called them “microbe-machines”? Legal reasons? 2.) A multi-lingual “Who’s On First?” routine based around the exchange “Seahorses?” “Ci, horses!” 3...
keyword "labyrinth" title "sharon's labyrinth" in misc. flash fiction
This grand experiment in writing flash-fiction from a new prompt every single week the library is open, it’s a lot like navigating the Minoan labyrinth, isn’t it? We have the goal, getting to the...
keyword "clandestine" title "unintended consequence" in misc. flash fiction
We as your government regret to inform you that as of oh-five-hundred-hours, toilets have gained sentience and are understandably angry. We admit it’s our bad, we’ve been installing clandestine c...
keyword "agonized" title "the circle of life" in misc. flash fiction
When they proved there was an afterlife, scientifically, with big machines and tiny math, less changed in the world than you might have thought. It still didn’t say where you might be going or wh...
jl16 in idea barrages
1.) Calcium, in reaction with air, is a heating element. 2.) Cows are all about solidarity, they believe in each udder. 3.) Aren’t gigolos just organ communitizers? 4.) Your Was (Not Was) cover b...
keyword "sardonic" title "sign of the times" in misc. flash fiction
In the village of Dolgeville New York, in the next town up north of the place where I grew up wide and tall, the place that I call home again my littlest of falls, there used to be a store called...
jl15 in idea barrages
1.) Your movie about trying to reboot the Golden Girls series via cloning will be called PLAN BEA. 2.) The realization that the ruination of the internet meme was people beginning to believe that...
keyword "pot" title "the very idea of florida" in misc. flash fiction
The idea that EPCOT Center’s Spaceship Earth looks like a gigantic golf ball is a tired comedy premise unless you add in a gigantic golfer who, before her mighty swing, must yell “FOUR… HUNDRED… ...
keyword "aversion" title "steuben's charge" in misc. flash fiction
Friedrich von Steuben. Friedrich von Steuben, that’s a foreign name, isn’t it? The kind of scary immigrant kind of name that’d make Trump the Lame’s last three hairs stand on end. The name Friedr...
jl14 in idea barrages
1.) Are Christmas tree decorations really just “branch dressing”? 2.) A parody of “Put On A Happy Face” about Buffalo Bill from THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. 3.) Egyptian Black Sabbath fans should bu...
If you’re famous, on your death, some hack cartoonist will draw the shallowest representation of your life, standing at the gates of heaven. Even if you died at ninety, if the thing you’re famous...
keyword "found" title "by george" in misc. flash fiction
We’re all just snow in the air, melting on the ground when we get there, just like George Bailey. George just wanted to build buildings, George wanted to just see the world, George thought he mig...
jl13 in idea barrages
1.) Sometimes random people you never met but facebook says “you might know” are achingly beautiful but you don’t actually know ‘em so you just move on and… being a human being was weird enough B...
keyword "moustache" title "bonnie and clive" in misc. flash fiction
Even though the American tradition of the hero-criminal is dated back to English mythology and the tale of Robin Hood, the American stories of the good-guy-thief have always seemed so much bloodi...
keyword "whisper" title "let them eat chips" in misc. flash fiction
I was having these chips, I was eating these chips, I was eating these chips from a bag from the local convenience store. I was eating these chips called “A Hint of Lime” chips and I thought to m...
Finally, Frank got back to the question of why I could see him as he was, a just-under-seven-foot tall sasquatch, when everyone else only saw a street-busker who’d left his costume on inside the ...
jl12 in idea barrages
1.) Twitter has informed me there is a celebrity couple called “Cardi B” and “Offset” that has just had a child and, like, congratulations total strangers? But more importantly, these stage-names...
keyword "bequeath" title "go fish" in misc. flash fiction
Give a man a fish and yes, he will eat for a day. Set a greedy man loose with a boat and a net and no Coast Guard to stop him, he will eventually get rich but along the way, the fish will invaria...
jl11 in idea barrages
1.) That mash-up of ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY and WELCOME TO THE MACHINE will be depressing but it’ll have one hell of a rhythm. 2.) Your HOUSE/BILL & TED crossover fan-fiction will have the running...