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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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may 12 in idea barrages
Utz: the only snack chip brand that is also one of the handful of sounds in rave music. I certainly can’t imagine Rob Thomas turning down the opportunity to get paid to promote an instant mas...
may 10 in idea barrages
A Coverdale-Page cover band just called “Dale Page”. A parody of “All-Star” that opens with the lines “Rhett BUTLER once told me / the dude don’t wanna know me / said frankly, dear, he don’t ...
prompt: stage, title: for his age in misc. flash fiction
“Your son is a wonderful writer for his age,” Miss Sobiecki told my parents or at least something approximate to that through thirtyish years of gauzy memory, “but that doesn’t mean I can read a ...
may 8 in idea barrages
You have the right to say wherever the story starts and stops for you. Intellectual property law has become a farce and story canon, doubly so. It begins and ends where you need it to. Don’t ...
may 6 in idea barrages
Your skeleton warrior will ride a zombie horse named Chivalry into battle. When asked how it got that name, your skeleman will simply say (however a skeleman talks, with no mouth or lungs, I’m ...
may 4 in idea barrages
Everybody’s always talking about the life coaching of Tony Robbins but no one ever credits his mentor Tony Batmans. Mothman, but he’s there to teach children about the calendar and he’s calle...
prompt: give, title: if at first in misc. flash fiction
“So,” he asked gently, holding her hand in his right hand and an engagement-ring box in his left, “what do you say?” She stared blankly, clearly in shock. He couldn’t tell if it was good shock or...
may2 in idea barrages
A reality show in Shrek 7 called “Porridge Wars”, probably. Bricklayers don’t die, they just throw in the trowel. It was the most expensive sushi you ever had, so you saved and froze one pi...
my 5,000th prosebox post in idea barrages
A Quentin Tarantino themed amusement park thing called “Mr. Toes’ Wild Ride.” Part of how you know SAVED BY THE BELL is just Zak from GOOD MORNING MISS BLISS having a narcissistic daydream i...
april 28 in idea barrages
Always refer to the speed of an airport people mover as “terminal velocity”. Having to be on a low-carb diet can render you person-non-gratin. Walking through my hometown, noticing people ...
april 26 in idea barrages
Sometimes I think I should sue Goldfish crackers because I’m the REAL snack who smiles back. The worst part about human life is that it ends but the best part is that it happens at all. How...
prompt: rock, title: the oceans near the shore in misc. flash fiction
“It wasn’t a dream,” a voice called from the darkness, “we had to pretend it was for a while but we’re sorry nonetheless.” As Dorothy opened her eyelids, vibrant colours made it clear this was in...
april 24 in idea barrages
At the strap on factory, all jobs are entry level. To eat Micro Magic Microwave French Fries was to be living in the future. Perhaps the future died when we rejected those damned marvels, lea...
april 22 in idea barrages
If we were meant to have hardwood floors, God or nature or evolution or whatever wouldn’t have given us feet designed perfectly for walking on lush fluffy grass with springy soil beneath, natur...
april 20 in idea barrages
“Maybe we can lose these guys tailing us at the airport, there’s so much security there, they can’t make a scene without getting arrested.” “That’s brilliant! We’ll hide in plane sight!” Reme...
prompt: drum, title: corrective fluid in misc. flash fiction
The heart is a palimpsest. That’s a sentence as difficult to explain as it is to spell or pronounce. Explaining what a palimpsest is, that’s actually the easy part. It’s the original recycling s...
april 18 in idea barrages
The Science School Bus, using super-science to bring students into strange realms so as to teach them how magic works. Why call it “sex lube” when you can call it “oil du soiree”? The borde...
april 16 in idea barrages
Carpet diem, hug the floor! A great pen name would be “Justin Dure”. The irony that the people on the internet who think there’s a conspiracy culturally training us to each bugs also worshi...
april 14 in idea barrages
“Relax,” he told her, as if that wasn’t the hardest thing to do in the entire universe. If they’re going to keep making Jurassic Park movies, not because the sequels have been good but becaus...
april 12 in idea barrages
Bands shouldn’t have a “Final Tour”, they should be honest and call it the “Pre-Reunion Tour”. Eventually their individual needs for attention or money will overwhelm their hatred for each othe...
prompt: show, title: as above, so below in "the next big thing" flash fiction
California’s earthquakes have nothing to do with the curse, of course, earthquakes are just plate tectonics reminding us there are far weirder things lying beneath than what looms above. We’re al...
april 10 in idea barrages
LESS CONCERN ABOUT EARNING POTENTIAL, MORE CONCERN ABOUT YEARNING POTENTIAL If you’re not there yet, lemme tell you, one of the fun things about getting old is when you hear “nostalgia tours”...
april 8 in idea barrages
“Oh man, I’m sorry I forgot you’re a vegetarian.” “No problem, no ham, no fowl.” We may as well give Willy Wonka a nemesis who is a TikTok chocolate influencer called Hustle Stovers. Someti...
april 6 in idea barrages
A movie about a serial killer whose calling card is a box of Milano cookies called PEPPERIDGE FARMS REMEMBERS WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. When the suits aren’t taking a cut, they tell artists t...
prompt: deal, title: the street of dreams in "the next big thing" flash fiction
The Curse of the Thirty Mile Zone existed long before Cinema, is centuries older than motion pictures, and will exist for eons hence. Perhaps less obviously than it does now, but it suffused the ...
