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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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sept 15 in idea barrages
Why say “venereal disease” when you can say “love-sickness”? Nintendo has lost so much money by being too prudish to market Legend of Zelda “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this!” condo...
sept 13 in idea barrages
Contractions often involve self-fulfilling apostrophes. A series of Halloween commercials for a bread and soup place starring Samuel L Jackson called “Snakes, Au Bon Pain”. An album ...
One of Frank’s co-workers on the Walk of Fame, busking photos to wide-eyed tourists as well as hipsters trolling for cheap irony, was a guy they all called “Hollywood Superman”, for relatively o...
sept 11 in idea barrages
Just because some company owns the intellectual property doesn’t mean it owns the way you can interpret it. Worry less about consuming a canon in a way that makes a company money, focus on w...
sept 9 in idea barrages
“Ain’t no LAW says a dog can’t be wireless headphones!” is the perfect trailer line for EAR BUD. It goes without saying but. If you pronounce “girl boss” as “girlb oss”, it sounds li...
sept 7 in idea barrages
They should call crochet meetings “hook-ups”. A mad zoologist takes to the high seas with a crew of primate pirates in PIECES OF APE. Is there anything stupider or more disingenuous ...
prompt: star, title: how do you sleep at night? in misc. flash fiction
I was a very different person when I was a child. I mean, I hope we all change over our lives. It’d be a profoundly boring thing if we all remained constant through this entire befuddling journe...
sept 5 in idea barrages
A Billy Ray Cyrus parody about working in a library: “Can’t date the moms / Can’t date all those cute moms / I just don’t think I’d have a chance / No, I can’t date the moms / The patrons’ r...
sept 3 in idea barrages
The Joker is literally the least interesting romantic partner for Harley Quinn. The cliched plot about trying to replace a missing pet with a nearly-identical pet before the kids find ou...
sept 1 in idea barrages
Hell is people who think other people are hell. Are fishing magazine the main stream media? Talent at Instagram promotion should be called Instability. NFTs were Beanie Babies fo...
aug 30 in idea barrages
If you hide your valuables in false appliances, you can be literally dishwasher-safe. A chewing gum that’s honey flavoured and black and yellow striped called “Bumblegum”. John Franke...
prompt: bottle, title: three plus one in misc. flash fiction
Dorothy, Wendy and Alice, so different on the surface but so very much the same at the end of the day. Each of these lost girls three thrust into worlds beyond their young reckoning, beyond imagi...
aug 28 in idea barrages
LESS “Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea” ENERGY, MORE “All it takes is a vodka flask to turn your Dunkachino into a Drunkachino” ENERGY! The perfect name for a lady Forge Cle...
aug 26 in idea barrages
Now that the guy from Smashmouth is deceased, who gets custody of Guy Fieri? My gut says Nickelback? He’s not churchy enough for Scott Creed, he’s not goth enough for Evan Vesence. I feel lik...
august 24 in idea barrages
It would be wonderful if you learned Spanish but don’t feel hablagated. I wonder if on Howard The Duck’s planet they had a hotel chain called “Nest Western”? Chains & products usi...
prompt: return, title: the candyman could in misc. flash fiction
It was the most exciting day of Charlie Bucket’s life. Of course it was. Growing up poor as dirt, barely having his own surname’s sake to relieve himself in, winning The Golden Ticket contest fro...
aug 22 in idea barrages
If you’re the understudy to the back-up dancers, are you a back-up back-up dancer? I’mma stop calling it a “belly” and call it my “man-curves” and see if the redefinition redeems it as se...
aug 20 in idea barrages
Wes Anderson presumes the existence of Eas Anderson, as well as Nor Anderson and Sou Anderson, and I wanna see what little kinda matchbox worlds those all create as well. The weirdest thing t...
aug 18 in idea barrages
Depleted uranium is outta style, we should armor our tanks with old Nokia phones. Why did we call them “Sadaam Hussein’s imaginary nuclear weapons” when we could’a called them “baath bombs”? ...
beatification in poetry
life will beat you into sainthood if you live long enough life will rain down the brick fists over and over and over again purpling your flesh loosening your teeth blinding you with bloo...
august 16 in idea barrages
A literary mash-up called THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR THOREAU where instead of vivisection, the doctor’s experiments are in convincing people the island is a lot further from civilization than it actu...
prompt: match, title: birthday mediation in misc. flash fiction
The bad news is there are no happy endings in this life, as nothing really ever ends at all. You might get sick or might get healthy, might get married or divorced, still as long as you draw bre...
birthday barrage in idea barrages
A natural peanut butter company should do some kind of cheeky “no-stir November” ad campaign. VAMP VAMP / MACK VLAD’LL MAKE YA / VAMP VAMP / VLADDY MACK’LL MAKE YA/ VAMP VAMP How did the “c...
aug 12 in idea barrages
Like in so many of my dreams, part of my clothes just disappeared, I guess I slipped them off to do a quick poem to cover for a guy to tune his guitar, as my father taught me, to perform in my ...
aug 10 in idea barrages
Sometimes I miss DVD commentary tracks but then I remember they just call them “podcasts” now. Does anyone else worry that the only time they’re their true self is when they’re alone with the...
